Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early the next morning-Labor Day -near Ash Fork, Ariz., Boggs killed both men with Flory's revolver and stole $29 and the Simca. Re-enacting the crime for Arizona authorities last week, Boggs said he tied both victims' hands and made them sit down on the ground. "At the time I had no real plans for shooting them," he said, "It just came into my head." Boggs shot Johnson once and Willis twice but, he said, Johnson got up and began running, yelling "Don't! Don't! Dont!" Boggs pursued...
...Silva's point was unarguable. Unionism is woven throughout the fabric of present American life, both social and economic. "The labor movement," says Chicago's Sidney Lens longtime labor leader and writer, "is really a carbon copy of capitalism." It is more than that: it is capitalism. Its relations with management remain adverse to a degree; but the action is that of cogwheels moving in opposite directions to operate the whole free-enterprise machine...
...threat of breakdowns in the machine can never be discounted; there is no guarantee that the old wage-price spiral with excessive labor demands resulting in inflationary prices, will not reappear. But the steel settlement just concluded is a typical example of labor's present condition and its relations with industry. A strike, while the threat was real enough did not materialize; increasingly, labor gets its results not through strikes but through other pressures, including the psychological. Steel negotiations were relatively relaxed; the big issue was not pay but fringe benefits. Labor has won the wage battles...
Turning that coin, what's bad about organized labor is bad for the U.S. And organized labor today is afflicted by a multitude of problems, some glaring, some subtle, and virtually all springing from failures to keep pace with change. For one thing, the labor movement is middle-aged and increasingly middleclass, powerful and sometimes arrogant, but without the lean, hungry and imaginative leaders of the past. For another, unions are faced with a new industrial revolution in automation, which promises to alter the very role and function of human labor...
...have been voted out within the last year. Most notable were the International Union of Electrical Workers' James B. Carey, 54, whose nasty disposition finally caught up with him, and the Steelworkers' David J. McDonald, 62, whose image in the locals was that of the soft-living "labor statesman" negotiating at the 19th hole in management's country clubs. Their successors, Paul Jennings, 47; and I. W. Abel, 57, are men of ability, but not likely to furnish imaginative new leadership...