Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steve P. Kelman '70, of YPSL's executive committee, joined with John Schwartz of the hiternational Union of Electrical Workers (IUE) in leading the seven pickets. They remained at the plant-located at 145 North Beacon St. in Brighton-from 7:15 a. m. until 9:30 a. m. as the IUE had requested...
...Peltier, materials manager for the G. E. warehouse, said that the pickets were ignored by the people working inside the plant. He attributed this to the fact that the warehouse workers were members of the Teamsters' Union. The management did not ignore the pickets, however. Shortly after they arrived, Kelman said, a neatly lettered sign bearing the inscription. "The employees in this company are not on strike," was placed just outside the entrance to the warehouse...
Demands of the strike center around higher wages, more safety inspections of the appliances being produced, and the request that doctors be available at all times on the plant floor to care for accident victims...
...says that education is the key to the city's problems. "If you could educate kids then they could compete with the outside people for jobs in the NASA plant and the other projects." Instead of driving the poor out of the city these new developments would raise their standard of living...
...started by Canada's Alcan Design Homes, which brought out a line of completely furnished aluminum-clad houses priced from $8,500 to $12,500, not including the lot and foundation. Indiana-based National Homes, one of the biggest manufacturers of prefabricated houses, opened its first modular plant last January. In a major industrial counterattack, National has also moved into mobile-home construction...