Word: labor
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...Appalachia. It was greater even than the great Western trek of the late 19th century. In 1940, 30.5 million Americans lived on farms. Only 10.5 million remain. Now the city-bound flow has slowed to a trickle. According to new data compiled by the Agriculture Department, the farm labor force (age 14 or older) has remained static during the past two years...
...Assembly, said that "President Thieu should have thought of this measure sooner." Supporters of Lawyer Truong Dinh Dzu, the runner-up in the 1967 presidential elections who campaigned on a peace platform and is now in jail, reminded the world that Dzu was sentenced to five years at hard labor last year for suggesting direct talks with the N.L.F. "Thieu should get ten years," said a Saigon politician. A leader of the North Vietnamese Catholic refugees who came South after the 1954 armistice warned that "if this direct talk with the N.L.F. leads to recognition of the N.L.F., or acceptance...
Ploy No. 2: "I only want to help." Positing a moral vacuum, students step in as chosen redeemers-"the Elect of History." Since they have a sense of mission rather than any specific purpose, they attach themselves to a "carrier" movement: civil rights, labor, etc. "Back to the people" causes are most popular with middle-class students, particularly if they permit an extra nose tweak for Father. (Mao Tse-tung has recalled the pleasure it gave him to side with the peasants that his father exploited...
...employees walked off their jobs. Some invoked gherao, a tactic borrowed from India in which workers barricade employers in their offices until wage demands are met. Since the government had set the pace by awarding civil servants an $80 million pay raise, it might be some time before the labor unrest could be quelled...
...industrial production from setting a new record for the fourth month in a row. Recovering from a January slump, personal income increased $5.3 billion in February to a record annual rate of $491 billion. Most of that jump came from substantial wage increases, which spur businessmen to invest in labor-saving new facilities and equipment. Beyond that, says John R. Hunting, president of Philadelphia's First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust Co.: "Borrowers feel that inflation is here to stay and that it's better to borrow now than later...