Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...testified that they had been treated kindly, had been fed as well as possible, had not been required to do overly hard labor, and had been given books to read, Red Cross packages and mail from home. Both insisted that they had not been subjected to any form of brainwashing; but the Viet Cong representative did let slip that "the good discipline of the prisoners" had been a major factor in granting their release...
...attempt, and the army shows no willingness to settle for anything less than a clean-broom housecleaning of all Reds and Red sympathizers.* Stepping up its campaign' to discredit the Communists, the army last week made public the confession of the country's sixth-ranking Communist, a labor leader named Njono who was arrested two weeks ago. According to his confession, the Communists not only planned and executed the attempted coup, but also intended to assassinate President Sukarno if he opposed the council that the Reds intended to set up to rule the country...
Inflation, as a topic if not a reality, was on just about everyone's mind and tongue last week. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler saw "disturbing signs," while Commerce Secretary John Connor and Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz had words of reassurance. Lyndon Johnson asked his top economic advisers to come to the Texas ranch soon to talk about the economy, but his aides insisted that he was not really worried...
British Ford long had some of the world's worst labor relations: its 65,000 employees in 22 competitive unions stopped work over everything from wages to tea breaks, averaged a strike a week and lost up to 1.5 million man-hours a year. Last week, after a period of improvement over the last two years, the wildcatting started up again. Two thousand men at Dagenham, the biggest of Ford's eight British plants, threatened not to work any more overtime because Ford, while granting an extra day's annual vacation, wanted to switch their holidays from...
Died. Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, 66, political liaison man for the Chicago crime syndicate, who first made it to the top of the mob as a labor racketeer (dairies, laundries) in the 1930s and 1940s, in recent years lived luxuriously in Chicago and Key Biscayne, Fla., dodging appearances before Washington crime committees; of a heart attack, four hours after his arrest on a perjury charge; in Chicago...