Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nation," TIME, May 2: Last Sunday we thrust our dinner between slices of bread, jumped into old clothes, tossed our youngest into her stroller, handed our boy the fishpoles, met two friends and took off-on foot. We walked about two miles to the local reservoir, sniffing Nature and listening to our shoes flapping happily on the old narrow road. When we got there, we spread a blanket and a lunch, and annoyed a few fish until suppertime...
...local governments are not interested in improving their living conditions, and in many cases even exclude them from the re-Kef rolls, though their chances of getting work are slim, indeed, due to the discrimination against them. The occupation forces are doing much unpublicized relief work among them, which incidentally is jealously resented by many Germans...
...within a week, he would have preferred to save the strike weapon to push through the union's 1949 demands for wage increases, pensions, and a health program. His hand had been forced by the tough, Communist-led faction in U.A.W.'s huge, 59,000-member Rouge Local 600, which had snowballed the speed-up into a major issue of union politics...
...recent election, Local 600's President Tommy Thompson, lukewarm friend of Reuther, had been forced to ride the issue even harder. When Local 600 voted 30,000 to 4,000 to call the strike, Reuther's international board at first stalled on authorizing the strike...
...meeting was the first in the Radcliffe-sponsored Conference. Delegates from 16 local colleges, Dartmouth, and Bryn Mawr are attending the series...