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...There (Sun. 2 p.m., CBS). The signing of the Magna Carta (1215 A.D.), "reported" by Newscasters Edward R. Murrow and John Daly...
Labor's Magna Carta. Getting down to specific measures, Joe Ball frankly admits that he cannot dot all the i's. The best he can do in some cases is point out reforms. These are high on his list: the need for better federal mediation machinery; the need to discourage industry-wide bargaining (to which "the only answer so far has been Government seizure"); the need to protect individuals and minorities within a union (who are now the victims of "monopolies as vicious as any attempted by the unlamented trusts of a few decades...
...long-term problem which is getting his close attention is labor's so-called Magna Carta, the Wagner Act. Ball would overhaul it. He believes that jurisdictional strikes should be outlawed; that unions as well as employers should be required to bargain; that certain legal reforms are in order...
...largest iron-&-steel works, have since risen in Monterrey, the brewery has remained the key to everything. It brought in other industries - glass factories to make bottles, metal works for bottle caps, paper plants for labels and cartons. The Sadas, Muguerzas and Garzas, the families who brewed the famed Carta Blanca and Bohemia, came to a large extent to control Monterrey's 600-odd industries. The brewery also set Monterrey's labor pattern, with independent (i.e., company) unions for its 4,000 employes, one of the most elaborate social centers in Mexico, evening classes, free beer, swimming pools...
...stirring addresses in Missouri and in Richmond, Va. [TIME, March 18], might very well be called a high point in understanding of the mission and responsibility of the English-speaking nations of the world; also, of a deep responsibility which a tradition carrying on from the Magna Carta to the Atlantic Charter demands. When you listened to the deep, well-known dramatic voice of "Old Winnie," you could not miss being deeply moved...