Word: shopped
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Perhaps the most important contribution of the multinational corporations in their strengthening of Black Labor power General Motors and Kellogg were the first companies to recognize Black trade unions. Ford was the first company to permit full-time Black shop stewards. Even more importantly, American companies such as Ford and Kellogg have deliberately undermined government control over Black trade union activity by negotiating with unregistered unions and negotiating outside the government-controlled Industrial Councils...
Rosovsky and Tassel also selected several photographs by Francis Frith, a greengrocer who left his, shop in Liverpool in 1858 to take pictures of the Holly Land, and others by Sgt. James McDonald, who made his "Ordinance Survey of Jerusalem" for the British Army...
...Republican Congressman and a one-term Senator from Tennessee until 1976, Brock was so conservative, the AFL-CIO says, that he voted with labor on only 14% of the issues that mattered most to it. Earlier, as an executive of his family's candy company, he supported its nonunion-shop policy. So when President Reagan selected Brock last week to replace Raymond Donovan as Secretary of Labor, why were union leaders pleased? Declared AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland: "He has earned our respect. We look forward to a new and constructive relationship with the Labor Department...
...that is impossible to resist." He added that his role will be not just to earn the trust of labor leaders, but to "create as many jobs as I can. That is the fundamental goal of this Administration." That apparently means Brock will follow the Administration line against closed-shop legislation and will push to abolish the minimum-wage requirement for teenage workers...
...time, her pitching husband, the only 30-game winner since Dizzy Dean in 1934, made a little book. During the 1970 season in Detroit, when McLain was the two-time Cy Young Award winner, he brought much hilarity to the sporting scene by confessing to having bankrolled a betting shop that lost money. Gambling data was just starting to appear in the sports pages and on pregame television shows. But betting had long since been classified as high jinks by Damon Runyon, and this was the rollicking spirit in which McLain was viewed, even when he was suspended for carrying...