Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...controversial loyalty affidavit of the National Defense Education Act will probably come up for consideration in Congress during its next session, the CRIMSON learned yesterday. Senator Joseph S. Clark '23, a co-sponsor of a previous bill to eliminate the affidavit, hopes to move his proposal out of the Labor and Public Welfare Committee where it was referred last July...
Reuther: Freedom is everybody's business. You are always expressing a concern for the workers of Asia. There is a thing called international labor solidarity. When I was in Russia, I was a member of a union, and it was what we would call a company union...
...trailer, confidently told an audience of 300 tweedy housewives and white-aproned fruit vendors: "This country is better off today-better fed, better clothed, better housed-better off in every way than ever before in history." Before another knot of housewives in a shopping center north of London, Labor's leader, Hugh Gaitskell, demanded, "What's being done about spreading that prosperity among all of us?", went on to tout his party's offer of a nationwide pension plan that would enable all British workers to retire at 65 on half...
...Tories were counting on prosperity and genial Harold Macmillan's undeniable personal popularity to help them "turn the hat trick," i.e., win an unprecedented third straight general election victory. But in the marginal constituencies, where national personalities and national issues were not likely to prove the deciding factor, Labor seemed to be staging something of a comeback...
...Summit v. the Schools. In Lancashire, the closing of 72 cotton mills in five constituencies threatened to drive thousands of touchy, often Tory mill hands into the arms of Labor. In south-coast Devonport, audiences listened stonily to speeches about the summit and demanded new schools. Among the coalpits of the Tyne, in Scotland and in the Yorkshire foundry towns, pockets of unemployment threatened at least a dozen government seats. And both sides fretted over the effect of mass transfers of traditionally Labor voters from city slums to new outlying housing developments...