Word: af
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five of New York's top writers, apparently enjoying their unexpected idleness after a strike of AF of L photo-engravers, yesterday turned down a mercy offer of the CRIMSON to provide an outlet for their columns in the Harvard daily...
...period of relief before the dock workers' strike flares up again, the public needs to reconsider its entire attitude toward this essential industry. For unless there is a basic change in this attitude, all the crime commissions, waterfront commissions, and all the reform attempts of the AF of L will be as temporary as the anti-strike injunction itself...
Perhaps it had to take a national emergency to impress this problem upon the public mind. We only hope it sticks. The AF of L has the right alternative and the inter-state waterfront commissions have the right approach. But the dockers need the understanding of more than organized labor, and state commissions bog down without public support. Stability on the docks will only be realized when the public so acts to show its realization that dock workers are not merely undesirable men in an essential industry, but human beings with the same dignity and needs as everybody else...
...years after the study started the Air Force became interested in the interviews the Center was conducting with escaped refugees. Shortly afterwards, the Human Resources Research Institute of the Air Force, under Contract No. AF 33 (038)-12909, granted the Research Center $908,000 for study until June, 1954. So far the Research Center has spent $688,000 of that money. The contract will not be prolonged, since the work for the Air Force will soon be completed...
...demonstrate that "freeing butter from support prices would immediately double consumption and completely solve the butter problem," Albert Lowenfels president of Manhattan's Hotel Bar Butter Co., staged a one-day butter sale af a Manhattan supermarket last week. Price set: 55? a lb., the level to which Lowenfels thinks butter would go if left unsupported, compared with the going retail rate of 79?. Total sales for the day: 4, 9751bs., against average Friday sales of 600 Ibs. Net loss to Lowenfels to prove his point: about...