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...People of New York and San Francisco," droned a Radio Moscow announcer in a broadcast beamed across the United States the next day. "The Pittsburgh steel smelter, the California farmer...and the Harvard student, you may be drafted and sent to the front." No other American university was mentioned in the ominous warning which continued: "The flames of war may creep in from the Caribbean and engulf your home...
...That's basic to America, the opportunity to make choices." Inmate Marion Chaney does not make lame excuses. He has four more years to serve of his fifth Texas prison term. "If I am dumb enough to get in here again," he says from behind a wall of steel mesh, "boy, I'll tell you, I'll deserve...
...most heavily unionized industries, such as automobiles, steel, mining and railroads, have been in decline. While organized labor has been expanding into other sectors of the economy, including high-technology manufacturing and service industries, it has not been able to keep pace with the fast employment growth in these areas. Labor has also been slow in attracting the millions of women who are entering the work force, and it has lagged in signing up workers of all kinds in the growing Southwest and West. The AFL-CIO is coordinating a $1.2 million campaign of local unions in the Houston area...
...management and labor in some key areas. Union negotiators must now trade higher wages for job security, restrictive work rules for improved productivity, cost of living escalators for guarantees against plant shutdowns. Over the past 18 months, workers have been forced to take less, not more, in the automobile, steel, rubber, airline, meat packing, printing, trucking and newspaper industries. Top union leadership claims that this is an inevitable consequence of the recession. Says AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland: "There are pressures that exist in this environment, and no one is immune from them...
With organized labor at its weakest point in years, companies are flexing their muscles as never before. Negotiators representing eight major steel producers last month turned down a union offer to give up $2 billion in wage and cost of living increases over three years. Management held out for concessions worth $6 billion. By taking a hard line, the companies are risking their first strike in 24 years when the current contract expires at the end of next July. Yet with the steel industry still suffering from excess capacity and slack demand, the union has little leverage in the talks...