Word: white-collar
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...Labor money, which now has entered the fray. A half-million dollars from the Auto Workers and other unions went into the organization campaign among the New York teachers, he claimed, arguing that labor is now trying to make up for declining blue-collar membership by taking in white-collar teachers, who otherwise might stick with the "professional" N.E.A. A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President James B. Carey was shouted down by the delegates in Denver before he could reach a key retort in his speech to the convention: "Teachers are welcoming unionism as a wave of the future. The N.E.A. should...
...miles to the southeast, made a considerable splash last week. "At least seven downtown merchants here," wrote the Observer in a two-column story datelined Charleston, "have hired Negroes as clerks or cashiers under pressure of a seven-week buying boycott. It is the biggest breakthrough of Negroes into white-collar jobs in the city, and probably in the state." But in Charleston itself, where the boycott has been in effect since March 17, the story rated nary a line in either the News & Courier (circ. 61,500) or the jointly owned evening paper, the Post...
...swept to victory. Barely in second place was Tory Candidate Coles; he squeaked in by a mere 390 votes ahead of the Liberals, who jumped from zero to 27% of the vote. The strong Liberal showing indicates a Liberal appeal to the working class as well as white-collar groups, though the cautious remembered that the Liberals had looked fine in early by-elections before, only to fizzle out at general election time...
...Right Price. Productivity is a notoriously slippery statistic. For one thing, it rises abnormally fast in recoveries when production picks up more rapidly than hiring. But Government estimates of the long-term annual rise in steel productivity fall between 2.1% (for blue-collar workers only) and 1.8% (including white-collar workers). On that basis, one top steelmaker figures that "we can eat a 2% to 2½% yearly increase in labor costs without raising prices...
...measured by occupations on a scale devised by Anthropologist W. Lloyd Warner of Michigan State University. The categories are: families of professional people and owners of large businesses, semi-professionals and lesser officials, clerks and kindred white-collar people, skilled workers, semiskilled workers, unskilled workers, odd-job workers. For their survey, Drs. Salber and MacMahon lumped the bottom three groups together...