Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Explains one: "My God, can you imagine what the reaction would be if we refused to attend? The great coverup, right? We'll all be there, if for no other reason than to defend the reputation of Mary Jo." All of the girls were scheduled to spend the Labor Day weekend being briefed by Kennedy lawyers. Nothing in their backgrounds prepared them for the public scrutiny and suspicions to which they have been subjected...
...they had lost five more games than they had won. Then, suddenly, they caught fire. They won eleven in a row, the longest winning streak in their history. They slumped briefly in midsummer, but they have since rallied to win twelve of 13 games. As the season turns the Labor Day corner and heads into the stretch, the Mets are serious contenders for the National League pennant. Last week they were only 2½ games behind the faltering Chicago Cubs, the leaders of the league's Eastern Division.* Like the fabled little engine that could, they are pulling mightily, and they...
...blacks invaded the state A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention and pushed the 82-year-old state federation president, Reuben Soderstrom, away from a microphone. For the long run, the Negroes' best hope may lie in the advancing average age of building-union craftsmen. Sooner or later, overwhelming shortages of building labor could compel reluctant locals to lower their color bars...
Unions usually get most of the blame for inflation in building costs-and much of the blame is merited. Labor has pressed the fragmented construction industry into huge pay boosts. In the twelve months ending last June, construction labor won wage and fringe gains averaging 10%-or 55? an hour. The unions have had powerful, if often unnoticed allies in the industrial corporations that order new factories built, and will pay almost anything to get them finished on time. Such corporations urge contractors to pay heavy overtime, and if the projects are struck, says George Cline Smith, a Manhattan construction...
...build most of the nation's roads, dams, factories and skyscrapers, has devised a strike insurance plan that may go into effect next year. "It would help stiffen the resistance of a little guy who might otherwise cave in," says William E. Dunn, executive director of the A.G.C. Labor Secretary George Shultz has been meeting since May with Harvard Economist John Dunlop and other experts to explore ways to contain construction costs. Shultz hopes to induce contractors and construction unions to use the Federal Mediation Service frequently to smooth over their disputes before they erupt into costly strikes. Within...