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...paying members, but overall the union is still growing. It is the nation's largest (2.2 million members), richest and most aggressive labor organization, with a stop-or-go hold over deliveries of everything from automobiles to bread. Over-the-road, long-distance truck drivers are still the well-paid Teamster elite (average salary: $20,000), but the union has also largely fulfilled its boast to organize "everything aboveground on wheels." It represents drivers of almost every imaginable vehicle from ice cream trucks to hearses...
...returned to Moscow. He secured a well-paid job as medical editor in the Ministry of Health. He bought a refrigerator. He bought a car. He mar ried. With the tireless help of a letter-writing sister, the wife of a United Nations official, he eventually acquired an exit visa. In December 1971, 23 years after his arrest, 38 years after he had last seen New York, he landed at Kennedy Airport...
...first beneficiary of organized crime is the organized criminal. The second is his well-paid opposition. The detectives, private guards, attack dogs and Kung Fu instructor all flourish in this lawless epoch; close behind are the writers of self-defense manuals. The most recherché of these literary crime fighters is David Krotz, author of How to Hide Almost Anything. Krotz, who is a carpenter as well as a writer, conjures up a harrowing world. Intruders perch upon window sills, second-story men prowl through closets, burglars tiptoe through kitchens and bedrooms. Their quest...
...University should change its position and allow medical area clerical employees to form their own union. The workers, most of them secretaries are not particularly well-paid and have at the moment no voice in the personnel policies that govern their jobs here. A union would give them some degree of over their working lives...
...deny that there is some poverty among farmworkers, but the poor workers are a small minority, not the starving masses Chavez has depicted. It is particularly interesting to note that Chavez has not sought to unionize these poor workers, most of whom are in the South, but the well-paid $8000 to $12,000 a year workers in California instead...