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...polarizing effect of the Battle of Michigan Avenue spread everywhere. Speaking before the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany declared: "I know what you'd do with that dirty-necked, dirty-mouthed group." It troubles few workingmen nowadays that the American labor movement was founded upon protests, strikes and sometimes bloody battles with police...
...years of the Republic. Americans now control 80% of Europe's computer business, 90% of the microcircuit industry, 40% of its automaking, and sizable shares of chemicals, farm machinery and oil. In Britain, U.S. companies own half of all modern industry, employ one of every 17 British workingmen, manufacture 10% of all British goods for home consumption or export. U.S. firms also squeeze out twice as much profit from invested capital as their British competitors. Of this, they ship $225 million a year home, reinvest the rest for the long term abroad...
...time is long past when the churches saw the lot of the workingman in terms of charity or when labor unions were denounced as Communist from the pulpit. As early as 1910, the Presbyterians set up the Labor Temple in New York City as "a special mission to workingmen." In 1908, about 30 Protestant denominations formed the Federal Council of Churches, which announced its allegiance "to the toilers of America and to those who by organized effort are seeking to lift the crushing burdens of the poor." Until the outbreak of World War I, the 20th century was an exuberant...
Most ethnic groups have become so much integrated into the general political community that they are only remotely identifiable ethnically in political terms. The Swedish and Norwegian workingmen of North Minneapolis traditionally, and still do, vote Democratic; the richer Scandinavians of suburban Minneapolis and the richer farms of southern Minnesota habitually vote Republican. In Chicago's 1963 mayoralty election, Republican Candidate Benjamin Adam-owski carried all the Polish blue-collar wards in the inner city but lost the vote of the richer Poles living in the suburbs. Even with Negroes, who have the added problem of color, the economic...
...horde of admirers. From the vast, hilly estates of Leicestershire to the pit-scarred mining fields of Wales, the peremptory piping of the hunter's horn and cries of "Yu-rt, my lassies, Yu-rt" were everywhere last week. As the annual season began, dukes and duchesses, and workingmen as well, were galloping after the fox. So many thousands of others were coming just to watch that the hunt is beginning to emerge as a national spectator sport...