Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electorate feels that the Democratic Administration has moved too fast on civil rights; equally significant, some 60% of all Negroes acknowledge that their cause has been damaged by recent rioting and black-power militance. The race issue endangers liberals of both parties-a fact, ironically enough, that alarms organized labor, which itself all too often tolerates lily-white unions. 'Who can tell," asks one labor leader, "what this madness is going...
...slowed by a kidney-stone operation in August. For his part, Griffin manages to sound every bit as liberal as Soapy, and has proved particularly effective in defending his sponsor ship of the Landrum-Griffin Act, whose regulation of union elections and finances is anathema to Detroit's labor leaders. Griffin makes much of the fact that John F. Kennedy was floor manager for the measure in the Senate, adroitly wrung from Williams in a face-to-face debate an acknowledgment that labor can live with the act. Whatever the outcome, George Romney's hard work on Griffin...
Complete Misnomer. As a result of such congressional blasts, the polygraph-happy Defense Department now reminds subjects of their Fifth Amendment right to silence and requires their written consent before using the lie box. In private industry, labor arbitrators usually bar firing when evidence of wrongdoing is based solely on lie-detector tests or refusal to take them. New laws also forbid the tests as a condition of employment in six states (Alaska, California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington). J. Edgar Hoover calls the name lie detector "a complete misnomer" because the gaugers are totally incapable of "absolute judgments...
Government policy is also a primary cause of the 10% rise in fruit and vegetable prices this year. Pressured by labor unions, the Government last January reduced the inflow of low-wage Mexican braceros who work in U.S. fields and orchards. Thus farmers had to hire domestic field hands, who demand higher wages and are reluctant to do such backbreaking "stoop labor...
When Rolvaag offered Short the lieutenant governor slot on his "independent" ticket, the bandwagon was rolling. Rolvaag soon had the influential support of Twin Cities labor unions. The "Short for Lieutenant-Governor" and "Rolvaag-Short" campaigns were models of logistic efficiency. Billboards, bumper stcikers, newspaper ads, television and radio spots saturated the state...