Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then, understandably dissatisfied with their own wage scale of $8,761 to $11,082, the cops walked out, demanding that they too be given a wage increase larger than that provided in the budget. Although so-called "job actions" have kept cops off the beat in other cities, this was the first official strike by police in a major U.S. city since 1919 in Boston. Police-union officials claimed that 1,300 of Baltimore's 2,300 patrolmen had joined the strike, although the police commissioner insisted that only 600 were out. Picketing cops marched with signs that said...
Provoked largely by the fear of even more inflation to come, labor unrest is spreading. There have already been strikes and demands for wage increases by airline employees, policemen and lumbermill workers. Other chronic troubles are the country's economic dependence on imports (50% of its manufactured goods) and the smoldering but deeply felt antagonisms between French-and English-speaking Canadians and between Canada's regions, East and West...
...largest (40,000 members in 700 chapters) and most influential group in the U.S. women's liberation movement. DeCrow, a Northwestern alumna, was raised in Chicago and held a series of editorial jobs there and in New York City before moving to Syracuse in 1965. Protesting unfair wage practices toward women, she joined NOW in 1967, won a degree from Syracuse University's law school five years later. She is the author of The Young Woman's Guide to Liberation and Sexist Justice, published this year...
...decade ago. Though he failed to win the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1971, the following year he captured the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Allen Ellender. A racial moderate, Johnston is an exceptionally effective television candidate. He has co-sponsored an extension of national wage-price controls and, for his oil-rich home state, has proposed building a port for supertankers...
Barbara C. Jordan, 38, began in politics stamping envelopes for the Kennedy-Johnson campaign in 1960, and six years later won election to the Texas state senate. After sponsoring Texas' first minimum-wage bill, she ran for Congress, in 1972 became the first black woman ever sent to the House from the old Confederacy. "I didn't get here by being black or a woman," she says. "I got here by working hard." A Boston University-trained lawyer, Jordan now serves on the House Judiciary Committee...