Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...period by almost a dollar, virtually the same increase agreed on at Ford. Beyond that, U.A.W. Boss Walter Reuther and his aide Douglas Fraser won some extras, notably a Chrysler commitment to raise the wages of its 11,000 Canadian workers over the next 30 months to the same level as those of U.S. workers, who now earn an average 34? an hour more...
...Debray's points is that U.S. military technology has reached such a high level of sophistication that permanent, fixed guerrilla base areas, such as the Communist Chinese develepode in their struggle, are now veloped in their struggle, are now inevitable...
...claim that political support for the Freedom Budget would be gathered by "convincing" in an elitist way local "church groups and political clubs" to support it. I said that at the local level Freedom Budget supporters plan person-to-person work in '68 to counteract the backlash among low-income white voters by showing that racist appeals are used by reactionaries as a cover-up for anti-labor conservative social and economics policies. I also added that a supplementary effort would be made with "religious groups and community political organizations," not "political clubs" like Tammany Hall or the Daley machine...
...Lowell Lecture Hall) emphasizes, what is the alternative? Local ferment and community organization, in the style of SDS or black power militants, are an important and invigorating force for change. But they are only a complement, not a substitute, for a political coalition that can act on a Federal level to bring the massive economic program required for significant social change...
...difficult to reconcile the expressed interest of business in raising the level of society with the taste and the intellectual level of its advertising. Why does sex have to be used to sell everything? Why can't business sell a product on its own merits? I would like your comments on this. Fred W. Sayre...