Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President F. C. Wiser says: "We are happy being happy." He has little else to take comfort in. Earnings dropped 47% last year as airport delays mounted, labor costs soared and the line added more planes than it could profitably fill. For the first four months of 1969, TWA suffered a deficit of $17 million. Its executives could obviously use a Happiness Campaign themselves...
...headed the drive to expel it from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Last spring, after he topped off an old feud with President George Meany by leading his own union out of the giant federation, Reuther decided that the Teamsters were not so bad after all. Last week the labor movement's Mr. Clean got together with its scarlet lady in a slogan-bedecked Washington hotel to exchange vows of solidarity forever. The U.A.W. and the Teamsters created something called the Alliance for Labor Action...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. has recognized the alliance as a challenge to its hegemony and threatened to expel any member union that joins it. The alliance has already made some unsuccessful overtures to A.F.L.-C.I.O. members, but its prime organizational targets lie outside. Some 58 million members of the U.S. labor force-notably those on the farms, in the civil service, in stores and offices -are considered ripe for unionization. The Teamsters' 2,000,000 members and the U.A.W.'s 1,600,000 will each have to contribute 100 a month, giving the alliance operating funds of $4.3 million...
...appealing. Hoffa is likely to resume his old job once he gets out. When he returns, no one expects that he and Reuther will be able to work together in harmony. They may not have to. If the Teamsters brighten their image enough to recruit many new members, labor's bad boy may be able to dissolve his alliance with the U.A.W. and return to the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-on his own terms...
...public sonnets vary in mood and tone. Some are simple, even simpleminded, like one devoted to Senator Eugene McCarthy ("I love you so". . .). Some labor through metaphorical complexities. Stalin, for instance, begins botanically, switches to a feline metaphor ("What shot him clawing up the trunk of power?") and finally reaches a fine physiological line, "his intimates dying like the spider-bridegroom?/ The large stomach could only chew success...