Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such an agreement would also. it seems likely, include more definite criteria for promotion and additional redress for a worker who feels he has been unfairly passed over for promotion by his foreman. At present, he can institute a grievance procedure through the union, but some workers seem reluctant...
...next day the feeling of futility and senselessness was again present. But it died quickly as we marched up the avenue and sat around the monument. There were so many people of all ages, sizes, shapes and colors. One sign read "You have finally brought us together, Dick." At the monument the speeches were dull, the air was icy, and the songs fell flat. We built fires with the AFL-CIO banners. No fools, those workers, they brought wooden sticks with their placards. A little of what made Woodstock a legend made life bearable at the monument...
...lottery system, based on a random selection of birth-dates, will draw men from a pool of 19-year-olds, instead of following the present policy of drafting the oldest men first...
...came back to University Hall to address demonstrators. He told them "the University intends at present to deal with this obstructive demonstration as an internal disciplinary matter." He informed the students that if they remained after hearing the warning they would be subject to "increasingly grave penalties...
...would be draftable under the present system will not escape the draft just because they passed the age of 19 before the new system takes effect. These men will be placed in the lottery as if they were 19 years...