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The article discusses about unionizing of workers at Starbucks, chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves, demanding better staffing in stores, zero tolerance for harassment, an increase in health and safety measures. It informs that the workers are also demanding to create a labor-management committee to oversee store working conditions, among other measures.

Presents photographs of assembly-line work environments that indicate the failure of United States federal health and safety regulations and of union contracts with industrial employers to address job-related stress and industrial safety. Noise and vibration bombarding the operator of a press shaping wheels for cars and trucks; Industrial workers' confinement to their work area or to bare, spartan lunchrooms during breaks; Cotton mill workers forced to wear respirators to protect themselves from "brown lung" disease caused by inhaling cotton dust fibers.

Focuses on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), an agency in the U.S. Department of Labor. Information on the book "Safety With Beef Cattle," issued by the OSHA for farm workers; Account of the OSHA regulations on ladder safety; Issues related to the beef cattle booklet and ladder safety; View that the two stories are examples of a propaganda campaign against the government regulatory agency; View that the appropriate extent of governmental intervention into safety and health conditions in workplaces is a serious issue, but the serious aspects get lost in a sea of propaganda and horror stories; Views of economists on OSHA standards.

Focuses on the strike of the American Federation of Labor Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union against the redwood lumber industry in California. Policy of the lumber industry to recruit workers from other areas of the U.S.; Efforts of Ward Phillips, a worker, to prevent new workers from joining the industry; Perception among veteran workers that employees of the lumber industry will not get decent wages; Issues of wages, safety regulations and job security demanded by the striking workers; Decision of big companies to negotiate with workers due to increasing competitive pressure; Attitude of Earl Warren, governor of California, towards the strike; Deadlock on the issue between workers and management of the lumber industry; Decline in production of the lumber industry due to the strike.

Comments on several issues relevant to foreign and domestic policies in the U.S. Indications that the time of the U.S. Congress may be occupied with the problem of military reorganization and national defense; Unemployment; Casualties from mines and quarries in the U.S.

Focuses on the plight of coal miners in the U.S. with the loss of thousands of lives on yearly basis in spite of the remarkable advance in technical knowledge and engineering skill to overcome the physical impediments to mining, and despite the development of labor-saving machinery. Prime causes of mine explosions; Pros and cons associated with the use of safety lamps by miners to avoid accidents in the mines; Ignorance of coal companies in the U.S. to regulate safety measures to further prevention of accidents; Account of the work of the U.S. Bureau of Mines in the study of mine explosions, their cause and prevention; Analysis of the work of the Bureau in the field of First Aid and in studying accidents other than mine explosions.

Contends that gun manufacturers in the United States should spend more time and money in designing safety into guns. Design of firearms to make them safer; Actions that a few gun manufacturers have taken to improve gun safety; Discussion on issues of safe gun engineering and gun control; Need for detailed safety engineering for many products that are dangerous.

Focuses on activities of the U.S.-based Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Possibility of passing a legislation to forbid routine OSHA inspections of a workplace; Controversy generated by the bill between organized labor, which opposes it, and the business community, which supports it; Significance of OSHA regulations for business enterprises.

Focuses on the impact of Senate bill 1302 on coal mine safety program in Washington D.C. Influence of oil prices on coal profits; Increase in number of miners with disabling injuries; Passage of Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 by the U.S. Congress to insure miners against the risk of accident; Debate over the bill 1302; Reasons for the failure of the 1969 Act; Discussion about loopholes of bill 1302; Argument that the paucity of new proposals in S.1302 resulted not only from fear of a counter thrust by the coal lobby, but from disorder among the proponents of mine safety.

Focuses on issues stemming from the increasing occupational cancers in the U.S. Estimates on the annual number of work-related cancer cases per year; Citations of chemicals with potential health hazards; Response of the Food and Drug Administration to the issue; Information that the total budget for the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the federal agency charged with research to protect worker safety, is under $30 million; Lack of epidemiologists in the NIOSH staff.

Discusses the scenario of safety on jobs in the U.S. Statistics on the number of work injuries taking place in the U.S. every day; Effect of the long range injuries on the capacity to work; Obstruction to the Administration's worker health and security bill; Testimony before the House Education and Labor Subcommittee earlier this year by Public Health Service employees and medical professors citing cases such as a man bodily carried from his hospital and given a bed at the work place in order to eliminate lost time accidents.

Focuses on the issue of a set of standards for the in-plant handling of asbestos by the U.S. Department of Labor. Increase in the cases of cancer due to asbestos among labor in the country; Data on hazards of inhaling asbestos; Views that the dust level in the factories has been much lower due to the regulations set by the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration; Opinion that mesothelioma has been a medical oddity virtually unseen except among laborers resulting due to the dust; Number of steps included in the regulations to provide safe working places.

Presents the problem of unemployment in the U.S. that has taken a form of a giant monster with the advent of the age of electricity. Dawn of the new environment of the Power age with the eclipse of the Machine age; Replacement of steam hoists run by the workers to the electric mine elevators because of the obvious advantages in safety, speed and better control; Eruption of problems in various industries like the paper industry as workers got maimed by the hot rolls and gnawing gears.

Focuses on the three major programs introduced by Thorne Auchter, director of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), excusing industries from compliance with OSHA's workplace safety regulations. Information that Auchter's "Exemption Plan" would waive the requirement that low-hazard industries should keep health and safety records; Reduction of routine safety inspections through the "Targeting" program; Intentions of Auchter to replace many routine on-site inspections with voluntary compliance agreements, through his third program "Voluntary Compliance"; Plan of Auchter to bring some form of cost-benefit analysis to worker health and safety regulations through these programs.

Presents information on the economic program proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Denial of charges that Reagan's economic program is designed to benefit rich people; Report that the Reagan administration is opposed to Federal subsidies to employ the jobless or assist the handicapped, but it has maintained supports for tobacco growers; Declaration that Reagan's intentions are to cut back on standards for job safety and for air and water pollution; Fact that the Reagan administration came to power on the promise that it could restore the U.S. economy to health by cutting taxes across the board and by eliminating only waste, fraud, and abuse from the federal budget; View that the health and safety programs, and student loans would actually injure the long-term economic well-being of the country; Information on the deliberations of the Senate Finance Committee that have amounted to an orgy of special-interest servicing.

Assesses the campaign strategies of U.S. presidential candidate Bill Clinton. Argument pertaining to New York Governor Mario Cuomo's ideal for a campaign alliance between himself and Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress; Criticism that Clinton's schizophrenia his campaign; Support of Clinton for a free trade agreement with Mexico; Advocacy of Clinton's policy for higher wages, worker safety, and environmental standards in Mexico. Belief of Clinton on free enterprise and power of market forces.

Focuses on accidents and near-accidents stemming from unsafe use of nuclear power in Russia. Controversies concerning a major nuclear submarine accident that took place in Russia; Long-term health consequences of the nuclear accident; Problems with Russia's safety procedure; Support given by the U.S. to help Russia dispose its nuclear bombs; Information on irregularities in Russia's system of gathering and reporting health data.

Focuses on the mysterious death of Karen Silkwood, a lab analyst at the plutonium fuel plant of Oklahoma-based firm Kerr-McGee Corp., on November 13, 1974. Toxic effects of plutonium; Information on traces of plutonium found in Silkwood's body and home; Protests of Silkwood against lack of safety procedures in the plant; Overview of other plutonium fuel plants in the U.S.

Comments on issues related to the broadcasting of advertisement on television in the U.S. Theme of the commercial of Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers Inc. Failure of the Consumer Union (CU) to practice name-calling and analytical methods in its magazine on television; Attempts of CU to get stronger enforcement of the Toy Safety Act.

Focuses on the urgency of enforcing health and work environment standards for workers in uranium mining industry in the U.S. Responsibility of the U.S. Department of Labor in enforcing the law to protect uranium miners; Comments from Department of Labor secretary Willard Wirtz on the issue; Legislative hearing conducted on the issue; Mortality among uranium miners.

Focuses on the need of federal laws governing the safety of work environment in coal mines of the U.S. Reasons for the coal mine accident in Centralia, Washington; Sources of funds for the implementation of a new legislative bill concerning the safety of coal miners; Efforts of labor leader John L. Lewis to enhance the safety of coal mines; Statement that a decent contract between the labor union United Mine Workers and private mine operators is necessary; Suggestion that President Harry S. Truman must make the Southern operators yield union terms equivalent to those accepted by operators elsewhere.

Focuses on deteriorating labor conditions at the construction site of Boulder Dam. Decision of contracting out Boulder Dam project to private contractors; Specifications of the contract which included three demands in regard to labor; Employment of workers directly by the construction contractors; Significance of the omission of any government protection to workers engaged on this proud public enterprise appears when one envisages the appalling difficulties and dangers under which they will work for the next seven years; Investigation of the Boulder Dam project by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; Results on the investigation which suggests that wages are being cut below prevailing levels, insufficient care is being exercised for the workers' safety, every advantage is being taken of the depression and organized labor and its demands are being ignored.

Focuses on the impact of poisonous fumes from factories on public health. Number of people killed due to poisonous fumes of an industry in Donora, Pennsylvania; Laws related to emission of fumes from factories; Respiratory diseases caused by air pollution; Steps which should be taken to reduce air pollution.

Presents an essay depicting the condition of a female foreign laborer in a garment factory in the U.S. Description of noise in the production area; Tendency of worker to daydream about her homeland; Injury caused by a gas flame; Fantasy formed out of reading the book "Quo Vadis"; Experience of discrimination by superintendent.

Focuses on the railway policy in the U.S. Question of railway rates; Depreciation of railway security; Advancement of rates sufficient to raise the whole mass of railway securities to the peace time level.

Reports on the death of mine workers who were trapped by an explosion in the mines of Ohio-Pennsylvania Coal Co. located in Cadiz, Ohio. Efforts of Jennings Randolph, member of the House Committee on Mines and Mining, to put forward a bill on mine-safety measures; Cancellation of the bill prior to its proposition; Provision in the bill for allowing federal authorities to inspect mines from time to time; Sponsors of the bill included Representative Fred Keller in the House and Senator Pearl Neely in the Senate.

This article presents information about the Industrial Security Program of the United States government that was initiated in the year 1949. Three million workers in 21,000 plants in the U.S. must now have clearance to perform classified work under this program. A report on that program has just been issued by the AFL-CIO and a documented case is made that some employers use the security system as a weapon against unions and good union men. The Industrial Security Program itself was not created by the U.S. Congress or any Executive Order but grew up as part of the contractual agreements between the Department of Defense and private firms engaged in defense work.

The article looks at the National Consumers' League advocacy organization, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of its founding in 1899. It describes the strategies employed by the group to bring about improved industrial working conditions, especially for child and women workers, discussing its efforts in manufacturing industries including clothing and candy and citing its head, Florence Kelley.

Comments on the development of modern car as an example of progress in the automobile industry in the U.S. Creation of the headlight that automatically when the lights of an approaching car strike it; Disadvantage of the comfortable automatic on the instinctive self-survival apparatus of the human nervous system; Safety risk of automatic shift gear.