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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First U. S. wage earner to be registered for a Social Security Act pension at 65 was a 23-year-old Princeton graduate who remarked: "It's a long way off" (TIME, Dec. 14). Last week the first U. S. wage earner to apply for a pension was one Ernest Ackerman, for 33 years a motorman for Cleveland Railway Co., who became 65 on Jan. 2. His wages for Jan. 1, day the pension plan went into effect, were $4.96, of which he paid 5? as the Social Security tax. For his pension, he claimed 32% of his total...
Another was the enmity of the American Federation of Labor, with which John Lewis and his "rebel"' C. I. O. unions are now contesting for the mastery of U. S. Labor (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante). In Detroit and Cleveland, city labor councils voted to back the U. A. W. strike. But local councils are small potatoes in the A. F. of L. patch of jealous craft unions. First Federation gun was fired last week when the Cleveland heads of the Plumbers', Machinists', Electrical Workers' and Bricklayers' unions sent Fisher Superintendent Scafe a joint letter...
...would obviously be weakened if its competitors were able to seize its markets. If this was Leader Lewis' strategy, however, he was would have to end promptly the C. I. O. strikes which last week continued to keep U. S. plate glass production almost at a standstill (TIME, Dec. 28). Though Chrysler was reported to have begun importing glass from Belgium, in rumor-ridden Detroit it was widely believed that Chrysler and every other motor manufacturer except Ford, which makes some glass of its own, would soon have to shut down for lack of glass...
...Cooper, and it remained to be seen whether he could kindle the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin into an enduring flame, or whether the Prime Minister would ignite and then gradually sputter out as he did when he was briefly lit on the Ethiopian "Deal" by Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935 et ante). Sparks flew in Downing Street last week with two "emergency meetings" of His Majesty's Government within 48 hours, and by the time Mr. & Mrs. Baldwin left to weekend in the country with the King & Queen, the more combustible Fleet Street newsorgans were in decorous...
...about to reconvene this was a good line for His Majesty's Government to take, in preparation for expected criticism from Labor M. P.'s to the effect that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's Non-intervention Committee on Spain is just so much humbug (TIME, Dec. 14). Cynically the London bureau of the New York Times cabled last week: "To keep public opinion behind him, if for no other reason, Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, will give the appearance of great energy between now and the time Parliament meets." It remained to be seen whether His Majesty...