Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cross officials to visit them and, Washington suspects, by exacting confessions of guilt through "moral or physical coercion." Indeed, only slightly less grisly than the possibility of their execution was the prospect that Hanoi's leaders may "spare" their American prisoners-only to sentence them to forced labor in installations likely to come under U.S. bombing attack-even though the convention specifies that prisoners can be put to work only on projects with "no military character or purpose...
Prime Minister Harold Wilson has twice led the Labor Party to victory at the polls with promises not to engage in the type of "stop-go" economic policies that he accused the Conservatives of using in their economic crises. Yet last week he held up the biggest stop sign of all. In an effort to bolster the sagging pound, Wilson called for a freeze on all wages, prices and dividends in Britain as well as new taxes to squeeze inflation out of the economy...
...power in the wake of World War I. But it was not until after World War II that the U.S. really began to lead a worldwide march toward affluence. By then, it was abundantly equipped for the job. It had a wealth of natural resources, a scarcity of skilled labor that forced the pace of mechanization, and an immense domestic market that permitted cheap mass production, provided customers for almost any speculative scheme...
...Apart. In Washington, in a basement room at the Department of Labor, negotiations moved fretfully. At one .point, Chief I.A.M. Negotiator James Ramsey stomped out of a mediating session, held up all negotiations overnight because Northwest had warned its strikers in Tokyo that they must now pay rent in advance for their company-owned quarters. At week's end, Assistant Secretary of Labor James J. Reynolds, the chief mediator, reported that the settlement was "no nearer than a week...
...factor--federal intervention. As a result of the government's role, both parties have found their bargaining positions frozen: the union can't back down from its demands because of internal politics and external rivalries; management fears that a union victory, which could serve as a model for other labor disputes in the near future, will bring down the wrath...