Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right in the election was so pronounced that the traffic under the Prime Minister's nose is keeping to the right. I doubt whether even a big Tory majority could cause such a change. Maybe the picture shows a narrow, one-way street, and the cyclists are merely Labor voters walking their machines against the traffic to demonstrate that freeborn Britons can go where they darn well please in their own country...
...under presidential and public pressure, as Ike had hoped, the industry and the United Steelworkers were digging in for a prolonged battle of principle (see The Economy). Digging in behind them were such major industries as copper, shipping, railroads and meat packing in what promised to be the greatest labor-management confrontation since the sit-down-strike days of the 1930s. At stake was not only the prosperous pace of business but the President's own strong stand against inflationary wage-price boosts...
...unprecedented steel strike badly needed some kind of cooling-off period. Some industry men were talking grimly about a war of attrition that might rage on for an additional six months. The steelworkers were working hard to convince other unions that this was a basic fight for all labor...
...demanding work-rules changes to increase efficiency, the steel companies had a strong case to make. And the steelworkers, for their part, had never been a union dedicated to featherbedding. By trying to make the changes in a sweeping manner, the steelmen had solidified labor into a newly militant front and lost much public support. Like many a controversy based on principle, the differences were far more apparent than substantial, might well yield to settlement if both sides would make the most of a cooling-off period to try a new approach...
...graduate division has so far produced only ten classes, but already some of its alumni have attained challenging positions in the Government. One is administrative assistant to the Vice President; another, an assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Disarmament; another works for the Labor Committee of the U.S. Senate...