Word: labor
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...Advanced, by a Senate Labor Committee vote of 12 to 3, the controversial bill to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, the celebrated "right-to-work" clause, under which the states have the power to ban union-shop contracts (19 have done so). The Administration-backed repeal passed narrowly in the House, 221 to 203, and faces at least as close a contest on the Senate floor...
When Tory Sir Harry Hylton-Foster agreed to be Speaker of the House of Commons last fall, his decision was a godsend to new Prime Minister Harold Wilson. It meant that the Labor government would not have to reduce its perilously small majority by filling the non-voting post with a Laborite. But last week Sir Harry dropped dead on a London street, and to Labor that seemed a bit much, coming as it did in the wake of a Labor M.P.'s death fortnight ago, which trimmed Wilson's edge over the Conservatives to a mere...
...enjoy it. An indefatigable worker, he is so busy that his appointment calendar is booked three weeks in advance and he often receives visitors at 7 a.m. over breakfast or 11 p.m. over supper. To remind his people that "the good things of life come only with hard labor," Kaunda and his ministers regularly show up wielding shovels at government road-building and construction projects...
Warning darkly of the evils of a "coconut mentality," he led the islands' first labor strike, founded the Seychelles Peoples' United Party ("Let's Go with SPUP"), came out squarely for "socialism," "nonalignment" and "full independence from our colonial masters." Another SPUP doctrine: that every young working mother be allowed to suckle her baby twice...
...long-term estimates of productivity: prices and wages should not rise more than 3.2% annually. The guidelines have remained as official policy under both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Last week they won their biggest victory when Lyndon Johnson invoked them to help squeeze a steel settlement out of labor and management...