Word: labor
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There were disturbing Labor Day incidents last week in Hartford, Conn., Camden, N.J., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. In the present calm context, they seem somehow atavistic-only smaller recurrences in lesser cities of the convulsions that racked major metropolises much earlier. The whites and blacks of minor urban centers are still learning the lessons that have brought a hopeful Thermidor transformation to cities already tempered in destructive flames. For New York, Newark, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Detroit, it was the fire last time-and those cities may have profited from the experience...
...black pride, and the efforts it has inspired, should be ultimately thwarted, the present mood could suddenly change, and all the old bitterness and violence could come back redoubled by a new sense of failure. If whites in industry, in labor unions, in government, indeed everywhere, decided that the relative calm in the ghetto meant that they could relax rather than press ahead with fresh help, welcoming the blacks into all parts of American society, then the result could be racial chaos far worse than any the U.S. has yet known...
...Howell's victory at the hearing has set back Nunn's campaign to get her out of the poverty program. It has embarrassed Breathitt County's Congressman, Carl D. Perkins, who, as chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, is responsible for all poverty legislation. Pushing for a two-year extension of the OEO authorization act, Perkins fears loss of badly needed Republican support if Nunn's veto is overridden. At the same time, he finds it politically necessary to back Mrs. Howell, whose support is an important ingredient to his own reelection...
...Germany, Europe's strongest economic upsurge has now reached a point at which eight job openings await each temporarily unemployed worker, even though a record 1.4 million foreign workers now labor on production lines. Prices are rising at a 3%-a-year rate. That might seem small to Americans but it is worrisome in a country where memories of the calamitous inflation of the '20s are as bitter as memories of the Depression in the U.S. The rate is likely to rise toward the end of the year, particularly if the general wage increase due in the fall...
...Labor Pressures. Prices in Italy are on the rise again after two years of stability. Lately, the annual rate of increase has climbed to 3%, and the potential for further escalation is great. Labor contract clauses that raise wages to reflect the cost of living are being invoked once more, and 3,000,000 workers in the steel, auto and engineering industries will be seeking further large boosts this fall...