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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that labor's future depended on organizing the unskilled, Lewis and other leaders rebelled against the exclusivity of the craft-oriented A.F.L. They formed the Congress of Industrial Organizations with Lewis as president. The C.I.O. extended unionization to the unskilled and semiskilled, organizing by industry instead of by trade. After rapid successes enrolling steel and auto workers, the union was firmly established. In 1937 Lewis had his first serious altercation with Franklin Roosevelt, triggered by a rash of "Little Steel" strikes. During one of them, in Chicago, police shot and killed ten workers. When Roosevelt was asked what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Demon, Sovereign and Savior | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...Eastern Europeans want to seek technical and financial assistance from the West. Fearing that economic ties with the West might loosen political allegiance, the Soviets oppose such links. One manifestation of the Soviets' attitude is their denunciation of the West's attempts to "build bridges" of tourism, culture and trade to Eastern Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: COMMUNISM: A HOUSE DIVIDED, A FAITH FRAGMENTED | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...fifth of the Italian party's $10 million budget, helps the Indians financially, subsidizes the illegal party of West Germany and supports the Latin American parties. Danish Communist leaders get three free suits a year made in East Germany, and some parties get a rake-off on whatever trade or tourism their countries do with the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: COMMUNISM: A HOUSE DIVIDED, A FAITH FRAGMENTED | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...city is the best and noblest product of man. In one remarkable chapter she even goes so far as to reverse the traditional assumption that the first cities grew out of agricultural communities. Not at all. Citing archaeological evidence, Jane Jacobs argues that the first cities were founded on trade and actually helped create organized agriculture and animal husbandry. In an age when most Americans have been persuaded that great cities are creeping problem areas, to be deplored and if possible escaped, Jane Jacobs perceives and persuades that cities and the challenge of their problems offer a mighty and reliable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The City of Man | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

Fourth, the university should continue to explore, as it has during the past few months, the possibility of joining with other universities and other large employers in the Boston area to draft a joint agreement that would insure that contractors and trade unions serving those institutions have an affirmative policy toward the hiring of blacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilson's Report Harvard Can't Ignore the City | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

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