Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert F. Kemper's "thousands of fellows like me" strikes me as very shallow thinking. A lot of fellows like him offering to work for nothing, or taking sides favoring the owners of concentrated wealth, who unlawfully refuse to bargain collectively as against the real workers who earn their bread by the sweat of their honest toil did not and never will break any depression or save our democratic country from Nazi control at home by concentrated wealth...
Collective Bargain. In Brooklyn, the New York Labor Relations Board recognized the United Construction Workers Organizing Committee (C.I.O.), Local 225, as the collective bargaining agent for John Boven, the single employe of an apartment house...
...would cost more to make steel on the Coast than to ship it from Chicago. But Kaiser thinks his setup, with no obsolete equipment to carry and with cheap gas and power, could actually make a profit at reduced prices just as his cement plant has cleaned up on bargain rates...
...A.N.G. "trial board" tried five writers on Hearst's New York Daily Mirror, condemned them to pay fines totaling $1,400 or be expelled (and perhaps lose their jobs in the bargain). The charges: 1) attempting to form a rival union, the A.F. of L. American Newspaper Writers Association; 2) refusal to pay dues to the A.N.G. (on the grounds it was Communist-controlled); 3) refusal to accept the Guild as bargaining agent. The condemned: Ruth Phillips, rewrite girl ($500); Walter Marshall, ship-news reporter ($400); Charles E. Lang, head of night copy desk ($400). Stiff fines, they carried...
...longings of proto-Neanderthal youth. The timely essay on The Argentine State and the Argentinean sheds less light on the Argentine than on Ortega, who discovers that the Argentinean "is a Narcissus to the highest degree, being both Narcissus and the spring of Narcissus, and his image into the bargain." Now a refugee in Buenos Aires, Author Ortega regrets that "I know too little of the secret sphere of erotic relations in Argentina. ... Is the Argentinean a good lover?" He believes that the answer would "confirm or refute my diagnosis." Most important essay is Unity and Diversity of Europe. Ortega...