Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feel, in justice to Westminster school, that I should reveal the unpalatable truth that [Britain's Labor Party leader] Mr. Hugh Gaitskell was educated at Winchester College, and not at Westminster, as stated in your issue of July...
Congratulations on your fine cover article on Roger Blough of U.S. Steel [July 20]. It focuses attention on labor's power, organization and relative invulnerability to corporate restrictions, as compared to business...
...that labor did all the getting and U.S. Steel all the giving. On the contrary, U.S. Steel took more than its share, too. It was the consumer who did all the giving...
...missionaries, it was said, "came to do good-and they did well." After building a basic, solid structure of up-to-date education and Christianity, the missionaries stayed on, became sugar planters. Sugar became big business, and soon the new landowners began importing Chinese coolie labor. By 1890, the missionaries-turned-businessmen were operating 72 plantations, exporting more than 25 million Ibs. of sugar a year. Born in the boom were the "Big Five" factoring companies, set up to handle the business of the sugar plantations. Gradually, they took over the functions of business agent, banker, labor supplier and arbiter...
Instead of blindly disputing each other on the highly charged subject of featherbedding, both management and labor need to realize their duty to themselves-and to the U.S.-to work together in eliminating a luxury that the U.S. cannot afford in a competitive world economy. Featherbedding pushes up prices, pinches productivity, penalizes the consumer and the productive worker to reward the drone. Worst of all, by discouraging the use of time-saving and production-boosting new machines, it retards U.S. economic growth. Every economist agrees that the best way to create more jobs is to make the economy grow faster...