Word: watkinses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charles Watkins and three other young blacks are among nearly 200 workers who were laid off at a Continental Can Co. plant in Harvey, La. The layoffs were determined by the traditional seniority rule-last on the job, first to go-that is part of Continental's contract with...
Prodded by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Continental Can by 1971 had increased the number of blacks in the Harvey plant from two to more than 50 among its 400 regular employees. Now, because of the cutbacks, all but the original two black workers have been let go. Watkins and...
Paul Watkins, a landlord member of the Rent Control Board, said last night he did not think the CTOC's suit would succeed.
Watkins added that the board was "very careful" to make sure that each rent increase corresponded closely to each landlord's specific increases in taxes and fuel costs.
Furthermore, the very earliest photographs in the show, even though they are only a small fraction of the pictures hung, actually are a good selection of early American photography. The Civil War photographs of Matthew Brady, Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes, and the Western landscapes of Carleton Watkins...