Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national capacity to produce consumer goods on top of its vast war production. Against that background there are only two kinds of pay increase that are really justifiable, by any standards except those of power politics: 1) those to correct genuinely "substandard" conditions and 2) those to induce an equal increase in production...
Half a dozen independent studies traced job absences to causes more complex than simple malingering or hangovers. Poor housing, overcrowded transportation, fatigue caused by long hours were given equal weight with labor hoarding, inadequate supervision, bad scheduling of work, failure to obtain materials in advance...
...plead. Back in 1938 she wrote a Wellesley classmate, Miss Emma Mills: "I want to go to America, but I do not want any visit of mine marked by a belief that I am coming on a begging expedition." And so she spoke as an equal...
...files of draft-dodging cases were growing mightily in the Department of Justice; but it was nothing to get excited about. One reason was that the induction rate was rising swiftly to 12,000 a day (roughly equal to the strength of one armored division). Another was that in the rush for men, Selective Service was now reporting the carelessly delinquent, along with those who really meant to refuse military service...
Thus neither side has a consistent plan. What is needed is a broad, central scheme taking the best points of the liberals, fighting for labor, and the best of the conservatives, proponents of business. Give equal treatment to both. Italy, whatever its demerits, has solved the economic problem by its Corporations, which form a branch of the government, representing industries by both employers and employees. A modification, to supplant the Senate, would solve our problem of economic equality by putting labor and business on the same plane. It is only by a stern but broad measure, taking in the whole...