Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be marrying Corrine Annette Huff, 25, a onetime Miss Ohio who was the first Negro to compete in the Miss U.S.A. contest. "Absolutely untrue," fumed Adam when the story caught up with him on a European junket. Having thus squelched the item, he flew off to attend a labor conference in Geneva. Right beside him was the apple he calls "Huffie," who labors away as an assistant to Adam's House Education and Labor Committee, at $18,600 per annum...
...complex and changing economy, the news is not always what it seems. Last week the Labor Department reported that unemployment jumped sharply in May, rising from 3.7% to 4% of the nation's work force. Bad news? Well, maybe not. The increase was welcomed in many quarters because it indicated another release valve on the nation's inflationary head of steam. Beyond that, closer inspection of statistics showed that the rise was expectable and explainable...
They have been spurred by publicity about the Government's campaigns to help them find work. Under federal sponsorship, such personalities as Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Astronaut Frank Borman and Mickey Mantle are making televised appeals to businessmen to hire young people. Disturbed that few companies are eager to hire unseasoned or draft-eligible workers, the Government has ordered federal agencies to take on one temporary employee this summer for every hundred regulars on the roll. The program is paying off. Of the 1,000,000 teen-agers searching for summer work, at least two-thirds should find...
...steady low of 2.4% among adult men and 1.8% among heads of families. Skilled workers have no trouble finding work, but employers have plenty of trouble finding them. Going begging are positions for lathe operators, carpenters, shipfitters. Among cities classified by the Government as having the tightest labor markets are Atlanta, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Rochester. Demand for this month's 600,000 college graduates is strong enough that they will easily find work at salaries 5% to 10% higher than last year's (current average for a liberal-arts graduate...
Shattered Guideline. As the supply of skills falls, the price of labor rises, and the Government's 3.2% wage guideline is being shattered with impunity. Last week a presidential mediation panel authorized a 3.5% increase to 35,000 airline machinists. Plumbers in San Francisco two weeks ago won an 8% rise to $8.23 an hour, now collect more than most doctors for a house call-at least...