Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking a Marxist-Leninist line borrowed from the Progressive Labor Party, the Worker-Student Alliance insists that students subordinate themselves to workers as the vanguard of the revolution. Though W.S.A. thinks that Negro laborers will ultimately lead the movement, it hedges on the primacy of black workers at the start. As a result, the other factions label W.S.A. racist. In turn, W.S.A. criticizes the rest of S.D.S. for looking down on workers and existing labor organizations...
...Vernon, N.Y. Pressman never made any bones about his Communist leanings, often supporting the Moscow line. Yet as a union lawyer he was tops; he played a major role in negotiating the original C.I.O. contracts with such industrial giants as U.S. Steel and General Motors, and ably fought labor cases before the Supreme Court...
...Nixon Administration pledged not to copy Lyndon Johnson's controversial "jawbone" tactics. There has been considerable jawboning, but it is different from Johnson's. Johnson's jawboning involved White House pressure on specific industries against specific price increases. Nixon is substituting mild admonitions to business and labor en masse. Last month he wrote to 2,200 business and labor leaders, urging them to hold the line on wage and price increases. Last week he followed up by inviting 3,000 corporate leaders to the cavernous ballroom of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel; 1,800 came...
...Even after the "painful transition" is over, he said, the Government will not allow the economy to resume its rapid rate of growth. Instead of annual increases in spending of 8%-10%, the growth will be held down, McCracken said, and "this difference should be kept firmly in mind." Labor Secretary Shultz said that the businessmen would have to face union demands without Government help, even in the case of utility or transport strikes. "We place our reliance on the free economy," he said, "so that our resolve will be tested." Nixon himself closed the meeting with a speech that...
...Depression days is inevitable." President Michael Daroff of Botany Industries, Richard Schwartz of Jonathan Logan, Inc., and Alfred Slaner of Kayser-Roth gloomily agreed with Phillips that consumers are showing growing resistance to clothing price increases; Daroff added that "the only way to hold our prices is to hold labor costs...