Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reeks of the bourgeois." Now the sour notes have died away, and there he was in the Moscow Conservatory, shy, bespectacled and frail as ever, answering cheers at a concert celebrating his 60th birthday. Composer Dmitri Shostakovich received another gift too: the Soviet title of Hero of Socialist Labor. Best of all was the successful first Moscow performance of his new piece, Cello Concerto No. 2, conducted by a similarly slight, bespectacled musician: Dmitri's 28-year-old son Maxim...
More Strain Than Gain. The draft, and the tendency of more and more students to stay in college to preserve their draft-free status, are heightening the already severe labor shortage. Motorola Corp. Chairman Robert Galvin last week cited the labor squeeze as a prime reason why the company's earnings are expected to drop in this year's second half. To recruit, some companies resort to blind mailings; Automatic Electric Co. recently sent letters to people living near its Chicago plant, asking, "Are you happy with your job?" By contrast, the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. has more...
Much of the difficulty is due to Dutch labor, traditionally docile (a 1959 court, decision actually-made unions liable for losses caused by a strike). Netherlands unions have recently been flexing their muscles in a big way-taking advantage of a situation in which, like many another European nation, Holland is caught between an expanding economy and an inadequate labor force. Unemployment is a negligible one-half of 1%, 70,000 foreign workers have been imported, and the ratio of available jobs to available men presently stands at 5 to 1. Thus, in 1964, Dutch trade unions negotiated an annual...
...just like the head of the student porter service last week, Eckles said that a labor shortage was at least a secondary cause of the new system. He said that the war and its higher draft calls are reducing the amount of non-student labor which used to man the college dishwashing rooms...
They said that rooms in the Houses would be vacuumed only every other week because of a labor shortage. Then they said that freshman rooms wouldn't be cleaned at all. What next...