Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...annual report, Dean Ford says that the greatest crisis facing the Faculty is poor facilities for science teaching and research. "Our physical wants seem endless," he sighs. Radcliffe settles its labor dispute by agreeing to keep ex-nightwatchmen at their former salaries. Sheldon Diets and the Coop begin peace negotiations...
After three months of bitter feuding, Harvard that fall signed the first labor contract in its history, recognizing two AFL locals as sole bargaining agents for the dining hall workers. But an "inside" union, the Harvard Employees Representative Association, challenged the AFL for the loyalty of the buildings and grounds workers, and the Administration's efforts to preserve a neutral stand during this dispute became more difficult as the year went...
...commencement approached, the draft loomed in the future for almost every member of the class and the War far overshadowed the labor fights, curriculum debates, the tutoring school muckraking, and the Yale games. America would be at peace for not quite six more months, and the Class of '41 would be the first to fight.PITRIM A. SOROKIN 'I prefer unjust peace...
...unemployment rate among Negroes is twice as high as among whites-four times as high for teen-agers-is that Negroes, conditioned to a life of rebuffs, do not realize how many jobs have opened up to them. The latest way of getting the message across, and bringing labor-short employers together with job seekers, is for cities to stage "job fairs." Businessmen have sponsored various kinds of job fairs in Chicago, Seattle, New York and, perhaps the best-organized and most successful of all, San Francisco...
...Miguel, a sturdy successor to such intelligent children's classics as Misty and Island of the Blue Dolphins, is a labor of love by the same makers, Producer Robert Radnitz and Director James Clark, who keep turning out evidence that a movie can entertain, educate and enlarge the experience of youngsters without driving their parents up the wall. Miguel refreshes the spirit like a week at a mountain camp...