Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just about enough: a National Opinion Poll showed last week that four out of five Britons would go so far as to favor tough government legislation outlawing unauthorized strikes. Harold Wilson, for all his dependence on the workingman's vote, has had enough too. Knowing that Labor's work stoppages, coupled with wage gains running an inflationary 6.3% so far this year, threaten not only the precarious stability of sterling but also the precarious two-vote majority by which his socialists rule. Wilson demanded that the Trades Union Congress, meeting in Brighton this week, agree to voluntary controls...
Dark Conspiracies. Until the reforms take hold, Valencia is pleading with labor unions to "give the government a chance to repair the damage wrought by Congress and the last Cabinet." He is getting scant sympathy. More than 92,000 unpaid schoolteachers and clerks and 18,000 employees of Colombia's judiciary system were on strike last week, and 45 major unions have called a general strike for Oct. 1. Many Colombians are simply throwing up their hands. Eugenio GÓmez GÓmez, a member of Valencia's own party, flatly turned down the President...
...Negroes were listening to some of the stations. That convinced him to play the Negro angle in print. He sold the Negro-supplement idea to newspaper publishers, got financing from the First National Bank of Chicago, and recruited a biracial board that includes Sausage Manufacturer Henry G Parks Jr., Labor Mediator Theodore W. Kheel, and former CBS-TV Network President Louis G. Cowan...
...European elections-both scheduled and potential-double the difficulty of ending these impasses. Britain's precarious Labor government, preoccupied with saving the pound, lacks the political and economic base to spur European negotiations and inspire EFTA, of which Britain is the reigning member; furthermore, it may soon find itself facing an election at home. Reinforcing the pound's defenses, the U.S. and nine other countries last week agreed on additional (but unspecified) short-term credits for sterling. Though the speculation-fighting arrangement came at a time when the pound was already gaining strength, one nation made itself conspicuous...
...Auschwitz. Gathering their tattered bundles, a dozen silent men crawled into the wagon, huddled together against the cold, and jolted through the gate into the snowy darkness. Among them was Primo Levi, a young Italian Jew who had been interned for two years at Auschwitz and the nearby slave-labor camp of Buna-Monowitz. In an earlier book, If This Is a Man, Chemist-Sociologist Levi recalled his imprisonment in chilling detail. In this reflective sequel, he tells of his arduous return to life. With jovial inefficiency, the Russians shunted him from camp to camp, finally sent...