Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radcliffe night watchmen and college administrators appear to be headed toward a bitter labor dispute...
...bothered when violence breaks out, "because it's usually my own blood and I can stand that." He then trained for the ministry but refused ordination because of discrimination in the church. During the war he was race-relations secretary to a pacifist organization and afterwards a labor organizer and radio commentator. Now as CORE's chief planner and spokesman, he makes over 200 speeches a year, but never uses notes or a text. "I haven't time to prepare them," he claims. Only as he approached Burr B did he ask for the exact topic and then he spoke...
...found them. Three big shoe companies announced price increases of 4% to 5%; loading charges at many ports were hiked 5% to 12%; prices of glass containers went up more than 3%, and floor tile 5%. Tags on paper, sugar and chemicals also grew. Steel fabricators, pondering the new labor contracts with higher wages and fringes, hinted heavily of forthcoming boosts...
...their busiest rate in ten years-90% to 91% of capacity-meaning that manufacturers were not only bringing in their least-efficient, highest-cost equipment but were encountering the kind of optimum demand that tempts them to hike prices. With unemployment down to an eight-year low of 4.5%, labor shortages were showing up in more and more key areas, and workers felt that they could demand plumper pay. Strikes broke out in several industries from coal mining to cookie making...
Weighing all factors, both U.S. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz and Otto Eckstein, a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, predict continued price stability...