Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quiz-show scandals, payola and labor-union graft are simply the result of a trend of the times...
Conservative Columnist David Lawrence, no admirer of Adlai Stevenson, called the proposal "the most significant utterance this year on labor issues by any political figure." Stevenson, said Lawrence, had voiced the U.S. public's deep disgust at the "irresponsible use of economic power." But despite public disgust, despite President Eisenhower's stern admonition before he departed for Asia that "America needs a settlement now," despite the danger than an aroused public might prod Congress into passing drastic antistrike legislation, Dave McDonald and the steel industry's negotiator, Conrad Cooper, broke off negotiations at midweek in another display...
...Stubbornness and irresponsibility on both sides have blurred the issues in the U.S.'s most momentous labor-management clash since the 1930s, and the Eisenhower Administration has contributed to the blurring. Within itself, the Administration is divided on the steel strike. Labor Secretary James Mitchell favors a settlement on almost any terms, played a behind-scenes role in California Steelmaker Edgar Kaiser's defection from steel's solid front to make a separate settlement (TIME, Nov. 9). Opposed to Mitchell are White House economic counselors led by Presidential Adviser Raymond Saulnier, who insist that the U.S. public...
Although the Freedom School supports the elimination of government, its followers claim not to be anarchists, who embody socialism, but "nonarchists." In economics, they support a simple Smithian philosophy of laissez faire. Labor unions, they feel, should be broken up because of their coercive habits; in the ideal world, such organizations would not be necessary. The Freedom School opposes foreign aid, another form of government coercion, and would revert to the legal system of the Biblical Samuels, in which individuals rule on cases and decisions are not followed unless both parties agree...
...blouses and men's slacks and shirts) are expected to be more than $80 million this year, a 140% increase over last year. Though still less than 3% of total U.S. consumption, it is the concentration of items in particular areas that has most aroused U.S. industry and labor opposition. In the field of brassieres alone, Hong Kong imports account for an estimated 40% of the U.S. market...