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Union leaders were not alone in their feeling that Nixon's program puts too heavy a burden on the workingman and the poor. John Kenneth Galbraith. even while "wishing him well," said that the tax and federal-expenditure adjustments added up to "a minor bonanza mostly for the rich." Robert M. Williams, director of a U.C.L.A. forecasting service, predicted that the rate of unemployment, currently at a painful 5.8%, would fall by only .5% as a result of the program. Senators William Proxmire and Hubert Humphrey, among others, hinted that the new Nixonomics may be due for some design changes...
...idiot, Agnew?said that what's good for America is good for the worker. Since 95% of all Americans are workers, we take the position that what's good for the worker is good for America." Says Earl Shaw, a Berkeley typesetter: "Meany is so far removed from the workingman. Organized labor leaders are too much the Establishment. They are concerned with being friends of the President...
...Chicago Daily News. Though his book is essentially a hatchet job, released more or less to coincide with the campaign for last week's mayoralty election in Chicago, Royko sees Mayor Richard Daley as an inevitable product of the Chicago environment. The mayor was born into a workingman's family in Bridgeport, an Irish neighborhood in that South Side region known, without comment, as Back of the Yards. He was born to membership in the Hamburgs, an athletic club whose members took their exercise by beating the bejesus out of any blacks and Slavs foolish enough to stray...
Absenteeism-staying away from the job-is a spreading plague in most industrial nations, including the U.S., Britain, France, Germany and especially the Soviet Union. Labor leaders concede that the workingman often grabs every opportunity to get away from the numbing boredom of the production line, but they add that attendance records are high in industries like shipbuilding, where workers put together large segments of a product and thus can take satisfaction in their work. Some sociologists say that widespread absenteeism is a sign of progress, an indication that people no longer want to labor in great factories because they...
Angry Silence. Deepening the malaise is what London's newspapers call the "angry silence" between the workingman and the Tory government. Few expect this week's scheduled meeting between Heath and Trades Union Congress Leader Victor Feather to start a real dialogue. Even if the seven-week strike of the 230,000-member Union of Post Office Workers ends this week as anticipated, by the end of April the number of working days lost in British industry may exceed the total of 10,970,000 for all of last year. That would be the worst record since...