Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years. Currently working on a history of the Eliot Administration at Harvard under Prof. Paul Buck, she has also worked as an administrative assistant in the Russian Research Center, as an assistant to the Director of the Shady Hill School and during the war she worked for the Boston Labor Board for the propaganda analysis subsection of the Justice Department. Previous to this, in the thirties "when jobs were hard to get," Mrs. Fainsod did volunteer work. She has also served as state president of the League of Women Voters for two years...
...strike; it may do harm, in fact, by obscuring the issues involved with the false reassurance of renewed production. The steel strike--the longest industry-wide stoppage in the country's history--has intensified two issues: the more immediate one of responsibility in the particular conflict of labor and management, and the general degeneration of collective bargaining between two huge economic blocs...
...freight trains averaged 12½ m.p.h., passenger trains 20 m.p.h. Today it means that a railroader can do his day's work in as little as two hours. ¶ Wipe out the distinction between the work performed by road crews and yard crews, thereby allowing full interchange of labor without duplicated effort. ¶ Eliminate firemen's jobs on diesels and other non-steam locomotives in freight service and switchyards to realize a saving of $200 million a year. ¶ Allow management only to stipulate the number of required crew members. ¶ End rules requiring idle stand-by operating...
...elaborate mediation timetable established by the Railway Labor Act precludes a strike before spring. But the railroads have warned that this time they intend to get changes in work rules even at the cost of a strike...
...talking and get back to work. Says he: "We do not believe it's right to put people back to work under a court injunction. When you force things upon human beings, you simply make more trouble for yourself in the long run. We think a showdown with labor, an attempt to turn the clock back, will merely result in more Government control...