Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Department of Labor...
Organized labor won the New Deal's blessings as the innovative counterforce to the entrenched power of big industry; as both sides have matured, however, it is big labor that has become the more resistant to internal change. A demonstration of unionism's adherence to the status quo came last week from the United Automobile Workers, which convened in Long Beach, Calif., and ritualistically bestowed on Walter Philip Reuther, 58, an eleventh two-year term as its president. By acclamation, of course...
...insisted: "There has been no till tapping that I can see." Last week, however, Youngren, a Sacramento insurance executive, told the district attorney's office that he and two of the men indicted for conspiring to murder Wilson had in fact tapped the till of $76,000. U.S. Labor Department investigators promptly made an appointment to meet Youngren at his office that night for further questioning. When they showed up, the office was dark. They found Youngren's body in a rest room, a bullet wound in the head, a .45-cal. pistol on the floor. Near...
...progressive as the national Government's, resistance to such laws in the South makes a national program essential. Without federal funds, the $47 billion interstate highway system would be beyond the states' resources. Without federal regulatory laws, railroads and airlines, radio and television, interstate business and national labor unions would be subject to 50 separate state codes. And as long as crop quotas and price supports exist, a uniform federal program for agriculture is the only bar to total chaos...
...good times as well as bad, the Irish remain feisty folk. Among other things, labor-management strife increases even as the little (pop. 2,800,000) Republic of Ireland grows more prosperous. In 1960 Ireland had virtually no strikes. Last year it had 89 major ones - trainmen quit running trains, gravediggers quit digging graves, and, no doubt with special enthusiasm, mailmen cut off all parcel-post traffic be tween the Ould Sod and England...