Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.'s relocation of its steel mills [Oct. 3] should be as horrified by the news as are the citizens of this area. We need action by people all over the country to pre vent more of these abuses. If companies are allowed to walk away from areas where they have been located for years every time the Government imposes new regulations or equipment wears out, there are going to be many more Youngstowns. Why should the worker who has given years of hard work be pushed aside and forgotten? Workers should receive the same loyalty...
...days of John L. Lewis, when the United Mine Workers called a strike it sometimes seemed that a mighty union was holding the entire nation for ransom. Once again a coal strike looms-but if 165,000 U.M.W. members walk out of the pits on Dec. 7, it will be a sign not of union power but of union weakness. The strike would be the biggest of the year, and would get President Carter's program to increase U.S. coal production (the aim is a 66% hike by 1985) off to a most inauspicious start. But the people hurt...
Analysts may provide a variety of airy sociological explanations for the apparent improvement at Southie High. One major cause, however, is quite concrete. Walk down to Kelly's Landing in Southie, turn to the southeast and take out a good pair of binoculars--you can see signs of the infinitely promising educational enterprise unfolding a mile out in Boston Harbor. Every school day for seven weeks this fall, a specially recruited group of 30 ninth- and tenth-graders from Southie High--both male and female, black and white--will travelout to Thomson's Island to participate in an innovative environmental...
...chose is extremely steep, and the students must rely heavily on each other to work safely and effectively. The black and white students, who tote humus and wood girders together, who anchor one another as they climb up the hillside, certainly provide a sharp contrast with the students who walk the halls of Southie High in racially divided packs...
...Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, which culminated in Washington, D.C. in October, 1976, raised the consciousness of thousands of movement people to the need to act again in confronting the military establishment and to renew their efforts in working for human welfare...