Word: labor
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...nonpartisan Mayor with few debts, Cavanagh was free to make a different kind of record and form a different political outlook. His major achievements--improvement of police-Negro relations, a city income tax, and an imaginative anti-poverty program--won him the support of most Negro and labor organizations, the Greater Detroit Board of Commerce and of 67 per cent of the city's voters in November...
...voters (his excellent civil rights record being more recent this Williams's), young voters (who tend to associate Williams with the bitter recession years and Cavanagh with prosperity), and Republican crossovers (there are no major Republican primary contests'. Williams has the backing of the Democratic organization and of most labor unions, including the state AFL-CIO. Odds currently favor Williams, but the result probably depends on which groups of voters turn out in greater numbers...
Last month Benenson was in Rhodesia bringing suit to reverse the summary deportation of the London Observer's correspondent. This week Amnesty is sending a 25-year-old Labor peer, Lord Gifford, to discuss with Hungary's Communist officials the recent arrest of 20 Roman Catholic priests and 50 workers on flimsy charges of agitation against the state...
...about all the tiny, obstreperous Communist Party could find to demand in the last election was "two houses for every family." Swedish families already own 375,000 vacation homes and 300,000 pleasure boats, as well as a car for every four persons. Domestic tranquility is rarely ruffled by labor trouble: the last strike of consequence took place in 1945, when 130,000 metal workers walked out for five months, and there has been no general strike since...
...just barely-as the Swedish Trade Union Confederation ratified a three-year contract with the Employers' Confederation covering almost all of the country's 3,050,000 workers. Before the agreement was signed, Sweden for four weeks had risked a crisis that could have crippled its economy. Labor demanded an inflationary 11 % -a-year pay increase, and management countered by setting a date to lock workers out of 90% of Sweden's industries. Only the cozy personal relations between the chairmen of the opposing federations, who have been negotiating with each other for so long that sometimes...