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...Guild enjoys no such cohesion. A so-called "vertical" union, it embraces all sorts of employees, from editorial writers to janitors, who have little contact with each other. Though newsmen tend to champion the union movement in theory, they are hard to organize-as are most white-collar workers. Restless by nature, newsmen are generally unwilling to submit to the discipline of a union shop. Few Guild contracts call for a full union shop, but almost all I.T.U. contracts do. While the Guild has helped to raise the general salary scale, its "minimums" have tended in fact to become "maximums...
...transformation of the domestic servant into a blueor white-collar worker means a great increase in efficiency in some areas, from frozen foods to dry cleaning. This does not necessarily produce a better way of smoothly coping with existence or gaining greater leisure. As Historian John Niven puts it: "My wife is as chained to the washing machine as she would be to the scrubbing board." The helpless life can create a nagging drudgery, a constant, often semiconscious preoccupation with the details of living, with intractable objects, impersonal mechanisms and complex logistics required for the simplest acts...
Railroads ground to a halt at the height of the Holy week tourist influx - biggest since the war - as 185,000 workers walked out for 24 hours in protest against "clandestine" bonuses ($200 apiece) awarded to 2,800 white-collar types. Simultaneously, doctors in three of Italy's 30 medical unions struck, demanding higher wages and better working conditions in clinics. Then the opera went on strike, darkening stages just before performances of Strauss's Fledermaus in Rome, and Rossini's Moses at Milan's La Scala...
...chiefly in industries affected by defense cuts: ordnance, aircraft, communications equipment, electrical components and shipbuilding. State and local government jobs are burgeoning (they rose by 315,000 in 1964 to 7,200,000), but federal employment has leveled off, partially as the result of a government economy drive. White-collar employment is continuing its fast growth, has now reached 44% of the labor force; there have been corresponding decreases in unskilled and semiskilled jobs in the mining, railroad and construction industries...
...most persistent sectors of unemployment continue to be among Negroes and teenagers. Negro unemployment now stands at about 10%, more than double the white rate, and that figure soars to 23% among teen-age Negro boys, 31% among teen-age girls. The civil rights drive is resulting in increased hiring of skilled and semiskilled Negro workers-Boston's First National Bank last year hired its first Negroes as white-collar employees-but many of that race's unemployed are unskilled and uneducated, have little chance of being placed. Though the thriving economy decreased teen-age unemployment slightly last...