Word: labor
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Although organized labor was once the champion of social change, many unions have a shabby record of racial obstructionism. The labor involvement in minority causes now seems a bit more promising-at least at the national level, if not among locals and individuals. The new Alliance of Labor for Action, formed by the U.A.W. and the Teamsters, suggests that some unions may become belatedly re-engaged in social progress. Still, white union members are not likely to open their ranks to Negroes until some of their own basic fears are calmed. One major anxiety is that automation will replace workers...
...commonly outlawed. Sodomy is illegal in nearly every state, even be tween spouses; New York is an ex ception that does not bar it within marriage. Until a new code goes into effect next July, a too ardent lover in Kansas can get up to five years at hard labor for successfully luring his girl friend to bed, and up to 21 years for merely trying. In Indianapolis, simply entering the motel room of a person of the opposite sex (subject to a number of exceptions for relatives, young children and others) is punishable by a fine...
Budge contends that he did "nothing improper" because his personal labor negotiations were with the funds rather than with the parent I.D.S. Some Congressmen consider this distinction irrelevant. True, the SEC regulates fund management companies more closely than the funds themselves, but the funds' activities are hardly outside the scope of its concern. New Hampshire Senator Thomas J. Mclntyre noted last week that the SEC had unsuccessfully advised the Senate Banking Committee to soften the language of a bill that would limit the fees that mutual funds can charge investors. Senator Proxmire said that he was "shocked" that Budge...
...also has endless trouble with most of the 17 unions that represent 6,500 employees. M.T.A. officials feel that the old private owners of the L.I.R.R. allowed the unions to run the railroad and perpetuate featherbedding. Union men fear that the M.T.A. intends to eliminate jobs. A legacy of labor-management bitterness has been left by a slowdown last summer in the Dunton car-repair shop, which has never returned to its old operating pace, and a week of wildcat strikes and slowdowns that greeted the introduction of a new timetable last fall. One commuter recently phoned for train information...
...William J. Ronan, the M.T.A. chairman, who is staying on. Aikman was replaced by Walter L. Schlager Jr., an executive from the New York City subway system. Harold J. Pryor, the verbose head of four L.I.R.R. union locals, warned that he would give Schlager 15 days to improve labor-management relations. Was he making another of his many strike threats? Could be, said Pryor...