Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occupational advantage over the poet. He composes his own sermons. Last week, addressing the faithful at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, Pastor-Congressman Powell recounted the saga of Daniel, with himself in the starring role. The lions, he implied, were those ravening "racists" on his House Education and Labor Committee who planned to make entrecote of their chairman...
Only months ago, Griffin, 42, was hardly known outside his rural, upstate (405,000) congressional district. During his five terms in the House, his name has appeared on only one major law, the embattled Landrum-Griffin Act, which sternly regulates the intra-union powers of labor leaders. That is scarcely a boost to any statewide campaigner in the labor-powerful state of Michigan. Last May, when George Romney appointed Griffin to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Democrat Pat McNamara, the Governor pointedly refrained from any enthusiastic commitment to campaign for his fellow Republican this fall...
...frank; he is direct; you can trust Bob Griffin!"). Romney has set a punishing schedule (25 downstate appearances in one day last week), made countless curbstone handshaking forays, appeared on TV spots and shows for Griffin. The Governor even took the Senator in tow and crashed the Democrats' Labor Day festivities. The two Republicans marched -uninvited-in a Democratic parade, went to the airport-uninvited-to meet President Johnson, and sat-uninvited-in an A.F.L.-C.I.O. audience during Johnson's speech at Detroit's Cobo Hall. Then Romney and Griffin helicoptered to Flint and clambered over...
...automen insisted that the increases did not make up for higher labor and other costs but mostly covered new safety features. The two-door Ford Fairlane, for instance, was priced at $2,239.81 for 1966. To this, $23.50 is added for "product improvement," meaning dual brakes, collapsible steering shaft, safety door latches, improved suspension, breakaway rearview mirror. Safety features that were optional on the '66 Fairlane now become standard at a cost of $70.46. They include a nonglare mirror ($16.86), retractable seat belts ($14.53), uniform-pressure tires ($7.90), padded pillars ($18.22) and two-speed windshield washers and wipers...
...Labor Department estimated San Francisco's unemployment rate at five per cent. The August rate for the national civilian labor force was three and nine-tenths per cent. The jobless rate fro Negro males in the San Francisco area is triple the white rate...