Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kong movie fans because they thought she had a silly looking face. There was nothing silly about her trip. Along with eleven other American women, whom she had been allowed to hand pick (she chose a representative group including a Puerto Rican, a Navajo Indian, a black civil rights worker, a George Wallace convention delegate and a twelve-year-old girl), Shirley was on her way to China to visit Mme. Sun Yatsen, Teng Yingchao, wife of Chou En-lai and Chiang Ching, wife of Mao Tse-tung. Shirley also hoped to "discuss with Mao and Chou how they have...
...accepting bosses hand-picked by Washington headquarters. He set about spending two days a week touring the coal fields, listening to miners' comments and complaints. Last week he visited the hamlet of Lake, W. Va., to call on Willie Ray Blankenship, a feeble 72-year-old former mine worker. Blankenship had applied for a union pension four years ago when he retired, but the Boyle regime denied it on a technicality. Miller handed Blankenship a check for $2,400, bringing the old miner up to date on his pension, and told Blankenship that he can now collect...
Greene interviewed a 21-year-old woman textile worker who shouldered a rifle to work. "It is the American government we are fighting," she told him shyly. "The American people are not our enemy...
...Wurf learned long ago to read the fine print in any proposal. They were predictably annoyed that this year's increase would only be from $1.60 to $1.90 an hour, a dime less than the Administration itself proposed two years ago. The earnings of a full-time worker who got the minimum wage this year would stay well below the poverty line for an urban family of four. Moreover, Brennan did not advocate extending minimum-wage coverage to any of the millions of workers who are now excluded, and union men say that they are the ones who most...
...corporations, especially oil companies, are also making a killing. In 1970, the major oil companies earned profits of $8.8 billion and paid taxes at an average rate of 8.7 per cent. In contrast, a $6000-a-year worker paid Federal taxes at a 16 per cent rate...