Word: waged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...N.A.A.C.P. has supplied legal aid to the very campus radicals who charge that the association has lost touch. Said Wilkins: "When they're in trouble, who in hell comes to their rescue but the good old N.A.A.C.P.?" Convention resolutions backed such traditional goals as a higher minimum wage, extension of the antipoverty program and stronger antidiscrimination laws. They also paid lip service to black power by backing community control of schools and cooperation with other black organizations, such as the Black Panthers...
Last week Teamsters Local 282 in New York City negotiated a rich new contract that calls for a $57.60 weekly wage raise over the next two years...
...Chavez signed up a group of rose grafters and won a strike vote for higher wages. Everyone pledged not to go to work, but just to make sure that no one did, Chavez and Dolores Huerta, his tiny, tough assistant, made the rounds early on the strike's first morning. Mrs. Huerta saw a light in one house where four of the workers lived. She reminded them of their pledge, but they had changed their minds. Mrs. Huerta moved her truck so that it blocked their driveway and put the key in her purse. The incident illustrated the charge that...
...personal sacrifices to curb it. By a vote of 79% to 6%, people who were polled thought that the most urgent step necessary is to cut federal spending-even though few individuals would be wiuirg to reduce any Government spending that reaches their own pocketbooks. Surprisingly, those polled favored wage-and-price controls by 50% to 26%; practically every economist has damned such controls as unworkable. By a big margin, the respondents also want to do away with the surtax and tight money, though economists on all sides believe that those measures are needed...
...with any nation. Altogether, Japan's exports in 1968 rose by 25%, and its shipments to the U.S. accounted for more than two-fifths of the gain. The reason, many aggrieved U.S. businessmen contend, is that Japan has been flooding American markets with goods made at far lower wage rates than any U.S. company could get away with paying. Some $400 million worth of textiles were notable among those exports. Southern Congressmen have set up a rising clamor for quotas to restrain the influx, and the textile issue has become a symbolic...