Word: laboration
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Draper facility near Kendall Square, demonstrators listened to Richard Proescher, who was recently fired from the General Dynamics Trident submarine manufacturing plant in Groton, Conn. for his anti-nuclear activities. Proescher said that conversion of weapons plants to peaceful uses would mean more jobs. "Weapons production is the least labor-intensive industry there is," Proescher told the crowd
There is no white Southern vote, no labor vote, no farm vote as there was in 1976. Where will he find support...
...like House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who regards him as something of a rebel, Jones last January maneuvered himself onto the powerful Budget Committee. He has since recommended cuts in spending for the Urban Development Bank, the Department of Energy's mismanaged Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the Labor Department's scandal-plagued CETA employment program...
...Labor peace in Abadan and Ahvaz, another big oil city nearby, is also threatened by 28,000 unemployed "contract" workers. They are highly skilled electricians, welders and drilling-rig operators who had been employed by foreign firms. Work has halted while the foreign contracts are being "reassessed" by the government. These men were accustomed to wages of up to $6,000 a month under the Shah. Unable to find work, they eke out an existence on a $200 to $300 monthly dole from the government. They also congregate in the streets, where their demonstrations for jobs have triggered violent reactions...
...humanitarian element of New Deal liberalism?the sense that society's unfortunate people ought to have some help?is very much a part of Baker's makeup. He tends to be thoroughly cynical about Big Business and nearly as disenchanted with Big Government and Big Labor. But his scope is vast...