Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impulsive gesture, in keeping with Lyndon Johnson's character, to fly to New Orleans in late afternoon for a personal inspection of the havoc wrought by Hurricane Betsy. Though he had had little to say about the Indo-Pakistani war, and had even extended a long Labor Day weekend at the ranch as it spread, the plight of an American city stirred the President to instant action...
...nightmare began Friday before Labor Day, when Boggs and Dixie stopped at a roadside park on U.S. 9 outside Luling, Texas, in a car he had stolen in Houston two days before. Parked near by was a pickup truck belonging to San Antonio Contractor Harold Flory, 50, who was fishing in the San Marcos River. Boggs killed Flory with a hammer, then rifled his pockets, and slipped the body into the river It was found there by a motorist who saw a fishing line running from the river to some bushes, tugged on it and, to his horror, pulled...
...Criticism. Such breaches have caused a growing debate about the whole idea of guidelines. Missouri's Republican Congressman Thomas B. Curtis, ranking minority member of the Joint Economic Committee, calls the guidelines "ineffective in practice and dangerous in theory." The danger, he says, is that they shift to labor and management the Government's burden of fighting inflation...
...Labor seems equally unhappy-for quite different reasons. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany has warned that enforcement of the guidelines "would lead to the end of free collective bargaining." Labor also believes, as A.F.L.-C.I.O. Chief Economist Nathaniel Goldfinger put it last week, that "all the heat of the guidelines has been on the wage side-a one-sided pressure...
Indications are that the presidential economists early next year will raise the guideline figure from 3.2% to 3.4%-as labor contends they should-to put it in line with new statistics showing that the U.S. total output and productivity are much higher than had been thought...