Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cite this date not to initiate a battle of numbers but to point out the necessity of looking very carefully at the sort of "facts" being advanced in an article which claims to be reportorial. It is significant that the article closes with an assertion that union shop agreements--a traditional demand of organized labor--are "a major violation of the civil rights if thousands of farmworkers." Such characterizations have a long history in anti-labor rhetoric. It would be well for those who advance such slogans to be forced to reply more on the available data and less...
...workers they needed and when. Meanwhile, anyone who wanted to work would go to the hiring hall where the UFW would pass out assignments. This meant that a worker could only get a job through the union, worker could not get a job through the union, establishing a closed shop. The closed shop is illegal under the Taft-Hartley Act, but the act does not cover farm labor. The closed shop hiring hall gave Chavez tremendous power over the workers. He could now simply withhold assignments from anyone who didn't behave. The work was now Chavez's to distribute...
Tall Blonde Man With One Black Shoe, 6:15, 9:35; Le Sex Shop...
...supervision of the National Park Service, which is creating a Sturbridge Village-like community reminiscent of the West Branch of Hoover's boyhood. Done with imagination and taste, the settlement includes the tiny, whitewashed, two-room house where Hoover was born; a Quaker Meeting House; and a functioning blacksmith shop. Recently the government bought ten little period houses where Park personnel now live. A schoolhouse is soon to be added, and there are plans for putting into operation a working replica of a 19th century farm. Even though many of the original commercial buildings of West Branch itself now cater...
Finally, in this thriving tourist area, is the Chisholm Trail Souvenir Shop. Here in "Kansas's Largest Souvenir Shop," I counted 94 kinds of things marked Eisenhower Center and/or Abilene, Kansas. Pillow covers, pencil sets, and toy cars were not surprises. Toothpick holders and babies training pants were...