Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suppose there was a national emergency. And suppose a key labor union was dominated by Communists who called a political strike, crippling the nation's effort to meet the crisis...
That thought haunted the authors of the Landrum-Griffin Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959. To guard against the possibility, they made it a crime for a Communist Party member to hold union office. Among the first to be tried under the provision was San Francisco Longshoreman Archie Brown, an open Communist for more than 25 years and a member of his local's executive board. In 1962 Brown was convicted and sentenced to six months in prison. He appealed, and last week, by a 5 to 4 decision in a session-ending spate of activity...
...reports from the United Press on its front page every morning. The big issue in 1937-1938 and in the following two years was America's role in the world conflict that seemed more and more inevitable. A debate be between isolationist Republican Rep. Hamilton Fish '10 and Farmer-Labor Rep. John T. Bernard, who favored collective security, drew a large crowd. Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, just returned from a trip to the Far East, warned in a CRIMSON article that Japan's quarrel with China was far more serious than generally believed...
...companies encounter-fortunately, not too frequently-is the layoff. Though they are accepted as occupational hazards in the U.S., layoffs are almost unheard of in Scandinavia and Southern Europe-and are sure to raise a storm anywhere on the Continent. They violate one of Europe's oldest labor traditions: a job, once obtained, is supposed to last indefinitely. Normally, European-owned factories switch workers to other assignments or put them on half-day shifts, but almost never fire them outright. Machines Bull-General Electric a month ago drew black headlines and angry cries of "Paris is not Arizona!" when...
Many students, even the greats and the greatests, are disapointed with the secretive manner in which many departments reveal their judgement. The student feeds the black-jacketed product of his several months' labor into the judging-machine and the machine ejects it two months later, accompanied perhaps by two half-pages of anonymous remarks as though his work had been graded by Harvard herself, not by two particular members of the faculty...