Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...programs. We must, then, for our security and our prosperity, keep our economy vigorous and expanding. We can keep it so, but only if we meet wisely and responsibly our economic problems. To mention a few, there are inflation, public spending, taxation, production costs and foreign trade, agriculture, and labor-management relations...
...America will not-indeed, it cannot -tolerate for long the crippling of the entire economy as the result of labor-management disputes in any one basic industry," said the President midway in the speech delivered from the White House just before he took off for Europe and Asia. "The choice," said he, "is up to free American employers and American employees. Voluntarily, in the spirit of free collective bargaining, they will act responsibly; or else, in due course, their countrymen will see to it that they do act responsibly...
After that stern admonition, Ike affirmed his faith in free collective bargaining by asking labor and management to negotiate "around-the-clock" to avert a new steel crisis when the strike-halting Taft-Hartley injunction expires Jan. 26. "What great news it would be if, during the course of this journey, I should receive word of a settlement of this steel controversy that is fair to the workers, fair to management and, above all, fair to the American people," said he. But the steelworkers and steel companies, deeply entrenched and unshakably stubborn after a 116-day siege...
After years of exploiting unionism to build personal empires, two of the leading robber barons of the labor movement last week began to feel the restraints of the three-month-old Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill...
...Fellow reactionary members of the Union Club--we have been found out. No longer can we blacklist democrats, labor leaders, and other unfortunates. Our current list includes twenty-seven Democrats (none of whom will contribute a nickel to Harvard), and one worthwhile fellow, a Republican...