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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interview yesterday morning, Steinhart replied to the charge made on Thursday by the employees' group that Phillips' wage policy was "inequitable." Brentano's did not lower wages when it bought the Phillips store, Steinhart said, and does grant raises for seniority. Although Phillips has paid temporary student help more than permanent employees at inventory, Steinhart noted, the wage difference was not meant as deliberate discrimination...
Brazil is ostensibly a Catholic country, but it is not really Catholic. African rites were brought by slaves, and the lower-class people who prac tice spiritism have adopted Catholic saints and some Catholic rituals. They use the Catholic icons to represent their African gods. Carnaval ends up as a time when the lower class uses the status of the rich white man's religion mixed with African gods-the ones the poor believe in. The celebration thus pulls the country together...
...auto industry sold 10,400,000 U.S.-made cars and trucks in 1968, the best year for total vehicle sales in Detroit's history. Despite slightly lower profit margins, General Motors had a $1.73 billion profit, up 6% from 1967, on record sales of $22.8 billion. Chrysler increased earnings by 45%, to $291 million. Ford, which has yet to report, will show a gain over 1967, when it was slowed by a 49-day strike. Struggling American Motors earned $11.8 million during the fiscal year ending last September, its first full-year profit since 1965. The performance was helped...
...When Brentano's bought Phillips," claims Ann Williams '69-2, a former Brentano clerk and a member of the labor committee, "the wage scale at Phillips was higher than it is now. Since then," she said, "they have hired new people at a lower rate of minimum wage...
...existing dichotomy between our intellectual and sexual identity. Women tend to accept false standards of femininity which pervade all aspects of our life. Women are seen as marketable items on the basis of their sexual attractiveness. Women's economic function often consists of menial tasks and almost always for lower wages than men. Further they are expected to give unquestioning emotional support to the male...