Word: workin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What I like about ranchin' is you're not workin' with the public; you're not all boxed in, crowded in. An' listen, we have some fun. My wife and I go to Vegas every year. You get hooked on farmin', really. I'm the third generation on this farm; my grandfather came here from Ireland in 1882 ?he had a family of ten. You know, I'd hate to see even one field sold away from the ranch...
...interests of students and workers" and spell out "the relationship of the Viet Nam and the other imperialist wars to their immediate demands, to the fact that they and their sons die in the war, that it is a war for the rich-the class perspective." During the workin, students were to challenge racism among white workers, to explain their campus goals, and to "break down bourgeois, elitist ideas in ourselves" about workers...
...were peeling back in his memory as he went back to a scene that took place more than 30 years ago. It was as vivid to him then as the night it happened. "It was during the depression. Let me see, it was nineteen and thirty . . . two. I was workin' with Evan Thomas in Crowley, Louisiana. We was all sittin' out in the sun by the railroad tracks one day, and Bunk was ridin' a flatcar on a freight train. He was lookin' for work. When he seen us, he jumped off that train and come over to me with...
...Subsisting on a diet of canned food ("I'm not much of a cook"), sandwiches and an occasional dinner with a daughter, he looks forward to social security payments that will begin next year. "I don't like that welfare much," he says, "and I sure don't mind workin'. Besides, I don't want to go through all that stuff you gotta go through...
...shock this comes from a Labor government," says Senior Shop Steward John Recordon of London's Palmer Aero Products. "I can't see any blame for the worker in all this, but now they're going to freeze wages. This talk about workin' harder is a myth. By and large we do our best." Wilson's appeal for Britons to show some of the "Dunkirk spirit" is "so much piffle" to Electroplater Harold Lane. Southampton Dock Leader Trevor Stallard argues that Wilson should have clamped down on profits first, then come to labor for cooperation...