Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part-time critic of TIME has a confession to make. As one of the central actors in the drama that has unfolded at the House Education and Labor Committee during the past six weeks, I must say that the most honest and accurate reporting which has appeared anywhere in the press is that which I have read in the last two issues of TIME. In my opinion, this is a classic example of a "big" story which never became "news" in the daily press, but which finally saw print in your journal...
...sets one night last week. "I want to speak to you tonight on an issue of great importance to every man, woman and child in this nation. It is above any partisan political consideration. It affects every American regardless of occupation, regardless of political affiliation. I speak of labor reform legislation...
...higher wages, they went before reporters and microphones last week to announce the biggest sales and earnings in their history. The figures for the top eleven steel firms that have reported for the half year were so extraordinary that they immediately set off a new duel between management and labor, brought widespread suggestions that the industry consider a cut in steel prices to share its profit performance with the consumer. The companies reported total net income up 140% over the first half of recession 1958, while average earnings per share of the eleven rose...
Such activity did its part to brighten the unemployment picture. The Labor Department removed 14 more major industrial centers from its list of areas of heavy unemployment, reported employment gains in nearly all of the 149 key centers that it surveys. The change brings the number of areas with "substantial" joblessness down to 46, compared with 89 at the worst of the recession...
...women workers in the plant-patting them, whistling at them, and making gamy comments about what Brooklyn calls "the built." He also learned that the eight men had joined the International Typographical Union. They were all fired. Last week, in a tough yet tongue-in-cheek decision, a National Labor Relations Board trial examiner ruled that union organizing, not sex, was responsible for the firings, ordered the men reimbursed with lost pay. He also read Boss Santangelo a lecture of his own on factory life...