Word: workers
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There could be much trouble, since some labor chieftains seem to be in a battling mood. Last week United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser, invoking some class-struggle rhetoric that sounded like the 1930s, resigned from the semiofficial Labor-Management Group. That body was set up under Gerald Ford as a forum for corporate and union leaders to meet privately, debate common problems and advise the White House. Said Fraser: "Why pretend that labor and management in this country are sitting down and discussing the great issues of the day and that they have something in common when they...
...owns. He also made an undetermined number of interest-free loans to his various relatives. He employed a staff psychologist at the council who had no degree in psychology and whose home address turned out to be a vacant lot. In addition, Dean spent $300,000 on a farm worker project in which no trainees ever served, and paid for farm machinery that was nowhere to be found...
...enrolled in a six-month diesel mechanic's training program (upon graduation, he got a $4.80-an-hour job washing buses at CETA'S expense). Also on the CETA payroll was Commissioner Clark's estranged wife, Faye, who drew $4.80 an hour as a social worker for the Dade County Association for Retarded Citizens...
Last week the trial of a non-dissident was timed by the Soviet authorities to coincide with the court cases against Shcharansky and the other human rights activists. The defendant was an office worker named Anatoli Filatov, who was charged with high treason. Tried by a military court, he was sentenced to death by firing squad. An official statement about the trial attempted to connect Filatov, who may have been a real spy, with the dissidents. It said, "The intelligence services of the imperialist states are persistently trying to use some members of Soviet society for intelligence and other subversive...
Marion C. Belliveau, the registrar for many years, said yesterday Mrs. Butterfield was "a tremendous worker, with lots of energy and drive...