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...Uruguay's two major exports, wool and beef, fell off sharply. Since then, inflation has soared 9,000%. Between 1956 and 1968, the country's gross national product fell 15%. Its social welfare programs, once a model for the world (by 1915, Uruguay had instituted the eight-hour day, free medical service and compulsory education), have bogged down in a lumbering bureaucracy. A quarter of Uruguay's 1,000,000-member work force is employed by the government, and another 400,000 are on pensions. Though the standard of living is still comparatively high for Latin America...
...Aside from Mitsubishi, Japanese companies own and operate only four plants in the U.S.. and all are experiencing difficulties. The main reason is that Japanese executives in the U.S. tend to base production schedules on the pace of Japanese factories, where workers put in six eight-hour days a week. When Mitsubishi took over the San Angelo plant of a U.S. subcontractor in 1969. its executives made it plain that they would not expect the employees to adopt Japanese habits. They have contented themselves with the work pace that American foremen can get out of 100 Texans...
...instructors want a greater voice in planning the school curriculum.* They also object to the productivity-minded company's plan to install a time clock. As it is, the instructors work a rigid eight-hour schedule in 38 identical soundproofed cubicles, turning out penciled marginal comments and lengthy typewritten critiques on six or seven student assignments a day. "We want to be treated like professionals and less like production-line workers," argues Harmon Strauss, a former Radio Free Europe writer who is Local 427's shop steward...
...United Transportation Union was a half-century-old work rule forcing them to pay a day's wages to any worker after he has traveled 100 miles in a train. Though high-speed equipment has long made it possible to cover several times that distance in an eight-hour workday, the union is determined to keep its pay scale tied fairly close to that 100-mile base. (The union made a deal late last week with one railway, the Chicago and North Western, to modify the 100-mile rule in some circumstances-in return for a 42% wage hike...
...Haymarket in Chicago police broke up a peaceful rally by the Knights of Labor to protest the murder by police several days before of Jour union men who had been striking for an eight-hour day. As the police went sweeping through the crowd, a bomb exploded. Chaos developed: police opened fire on the demonstrators. Sixty-seven police were wounded and seven died; casualties among the demonstrators were three times that. Police blamed anarchists for the bombing, and to prove it, they planted dynamite in their homes before they arrested them. The anarchists said that the bomb was thrown...