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Labor is the largest organized politi cal pressure group in the U.S., but it is neither happy nor effective as it ap proaches 1967. The 90th Congress shows every sign of being the first Congress in many years from which labor has no hope of winning any prolabor legislation at all. Several major strikes in 1966 that greatly inconvenienced the public - including the airline and New York transit strikes - have given labor a tarnished image, and its fracturing of the economic guidelines has not exactly made it popular in Washington. Finally, the U.S. labor movement has fallen to quarreling within...
Personality & Loyalty. Brash, liberal and articulate, Cavanagh took a more cerebral approach, but he failed to read correctly just what he faced, beginning with the opposition of the state Democratic hierarchy. Though both candidates were prolabor and pro-civil rights, Soapy had been helping Negroes and laborers when Cavanagh was in short pants-and they knew it. Cavanagh's 1% city income tax in Detroit proved unpopular, and many Negroes were alienated when he toyed earlier this year with the idea of a "stop-and-frisk law" that would allow police to search suspicious persons. Then, too, there...
Died. Mary Heaton Vorse, 84, journalist and author, a devoutly prolabor New Englander who for three decades reported the birth pangs of U.S. unions in countless articles and five books (Labor's New Millions), often abandoning tier sidelines role to bail out imprisoned labor leaders and aid strikers' families; of a rupture of the abdominal aorta; in Provincetown, Mass...
...News. Some readers complain that labor papers are still too prolabor. "Everything is 100% progress," says one union member. "They never talk about losing a fight." While the papers print their share of bad world news, they run scarcely any bad union news. A union victory in a National Labor Relations Board election rates banner headlines; news of a defeat is buried in the back pages...
...decade ago economists identifiable as liberals were automatically prolabor, rejected the idea that wage increases could be economically harmful. Today Heller, like most other economists, holds that "excessively generous wage bargains'' between unions and management can lead to "cost-push" price upcreep...