Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where two conservative Republicans are challenging the mayor. Wagner presents a threat to Lindsay's renomination by the Liberal Party, which provided Lindsay's margin of victory last time. The Liberals have backed Wagner in the past, and at their convention this week, there will be strong labor-union backing...
Soviet Capitalists. Part of these foreign catches finds its way back to the U.S., which imports three-quarters of the fish products it consumes. For a variety of reasons, including lower labor costs, government subsidies and sophisticated equipment, a few foreign producers can cruise close to U.S. shores, process their catch, and sell it on the American market-all for less than the same cycle costs a local fisherman...
...conflict began at noon on Wednesday. About 250 students from Harvard and Radcliffe, most of them members of Students for a Democratic Society and the pro-Mao Progressive Labor Party, appeared outside University Hall, the three-story administration building at the center of Harvard Yard. They reiterated six "unnegotiable" demands made on the Harvard Corporation.*The issues: the abolition of ROTC and an end to what the radicals consider Harvard's "expansionist" approach to its urban surroundings...
Dissent even rakes the ranks of SDS. A splinter minority of SDS is the Progressive Labor Party. The PLP is made up of a pro-Mao Communist cabal...
...want "a society in which the young speak their minds against the Establishment." Where have the young more freely, recklessly and intransigently attacked "the Establishment"? (Every political order has one.) Wherever "our heroes--Marx, Mao, Che" have prevailed, students, writers, teachers, scientists have been punished with hard labor or death--for what? For their opinions. Where but in "fake democracies" are mass demonstrations possible, or your bitter (and legitimate) dissent televised...