Assembly-line blues at Ford Dearborn plant
At Ford Motor Company's Dearborn Assembly Plant the mass of workers feels the grind of long hours and monotonous tasks. Charlie Chaplin is invoked to describe the tedium as 30,000 employees produce 55 cars an hour, five days a week, while many yearn for a different career.
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Tom Tiede
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Dearborn
Mich
Charlie Chaplin
Ford Motor Company
Clearthur Jones
Gene
Ford
Henry Ford
Verd
Bowly
General Motors
Lordstown
Ohio
Vietnam
Pentagon
G.M
United Auto Worker
Ken Bannon
The Third Labor Problem in the U S Auto Plants
A study of bored assembly line workers, the rise of absenteeism and sabotage, and evolving management responses. Ford, GM, Chrysler, and others experiment with employee involvement, calendars, and team concepts to curb discontent while preserving competitiveness.
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United States
Letter to the editor on quotas and employment bias
Linds MacLachlan of Carbondale argues that quotas merely mask underlying discrimination. He asserts employment practices favor white middle class men and urges employers to revise standards and eliminate discriminatory effects now.
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Southern Trindian
Congressional Quarterly
America
Linds MacLachlan
Carbondale
Schlickman criticizes Blair in Illinois House revolt
Rep Schlickman writes to the editor after leaving the Republican caucus in Springfield on November 26 1974. He vows not to vote for or assist a Democrat for speaker and attacks Blair and Choate for mismanaging reapportionment and curbing member influence while asserting his duty to the public welfare over party loyalty.
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Repub- Aien
Springfield
Republian
General Assembly
W. Robert Blair
House
House of Representatives
Blair
Clyde Choate
Choate
Dlinois Supreme Court
Ilinois
GE Representatives
Wheeling Township
Amadio quits seat to attack Model Cities program
John Amadio head of the Jackson County Health Department resigns from the Carbondale Attucks Center Board of Governors and charges the Model Cities program and its Attucks center with ineffectiveness and crony hiring. He urges a full administrative review by City Manager Carroll Fry, with findings made public to clear or reform the program.
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John Amadio
Carbondale Attucks — Multi Purcase Cornet Board of Governors
Amado
Jackson County Health Department
Seid
Attucks Center
Amadio
Carbondale
Northeast Con
Death of Life ends era as Time marches on
Life magazine folds after decades of influence on photojournalism and advertising. Time Inc. will continue as a major news brand though the loss is felt by Americans who turned to Life each week. The death signals nostalgia amid rapid social change and a clinging to the past.
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Life
Life Magazine
Saturday Evening Post
Time, Inc
Henry Luce
Wil Rollon
Time Magazine
Lie
Southern Illinoisan masthead and editors named
The Southern Illinoisan lists John C. Gardner as Editor and General Manager and James K. Adams as Business Manager.
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John C. Gardner
James K. Adams
U S Eyes New Agricultural Trade Policy Strategy
The United States quietly prepares a plan to lower tariffs and open markets, aiming to boost U S agricultural exports and lower consumer food prices but risking devastation in dairy cotton and sugar sectors. The Flanigan Report, finished last July and debated at a closed agriculture research economists conference, envisions shifting U S farming toward beef and soybeans to dominate world markets, with potential gains rising from 8 billion to 20 billion dollars by 1989.
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John Fialka
Washington Star-News
Washington
United States
U. S
Research Economista
Department of Agriculture
Peter W. Flantaan
Fisnigan
Flanigan
Agriculture Department
Tvith
Japan
Europe
Conference of
Tesearch Economists
D. Gale Johnson
University of Chicago
Johnson
Soviet Union
U.S
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Murphysboro
Don Scriven
Harvard
Steve Fuller
Chrysler-Plymouth
American Motors
Chrysler
UAW
Bannon
Jerry Sloan
Fuller
Orient
Acapulco
Hawaii
Behames
Rep. Schlickman
George McGovern
Llelevision
Arthur Godfrey
Art Linkletter
Model
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