Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communism was by herding the peasantry into communes. "Well, they organized communes," he said. "But neither the material nor political conditions for it-I mean the consciousness of the peasant masses-then existed. A situation arose in which everyone wanted to live well but to contribute a minimum of labor to the common cause." China, in other words, would soon learn, as Russia did, that communes offer too much scope for goldbricking...
...Havana to do a political job. Railing against the "infamous" foreign press and "foreign plutocrats," he defended his one-man rule as "Athenian democracy" and warned that "the guajiros are here with their machetes to defend the revolution, and their machetes are sharp." Next day Castro's labor leaders closed down the city for an hour with a general strike, "demanding" that he return to office...
...Bureau of Statistics last week reported employment at an alltime high, with 6,053,000 at work and unemployment running lower than Ottawa economists dared expect only a few months ago. The number of jobless Canadians dropped sharply last month to 234,000, which is 3.7% of the labor force, compared with 10% in March 1958. As the result of stronger demand for Canadian raw materials in the bullish U.S. recovery, Canadian exports to the U.S. surged to $321.1 million in June (v. $233.6 million in June 1958), and overall exports were up to a one-month record...
...basic industry spent their days picketing or doing odd jobs at home, the U.S. this week faced another deadline that could shut down a second major industry. With contracts covering 82% of U.S. aluminum-producing capacity about to expire, the top U.S. aluminum makers-Alcoa, Reynolds, Kaiser-turned down labor's demands for the same wage package that the union failed to get from steel management. Barring a last-minute truce, the United Steelworkers (32,000 aluminum members) and two other unions (28,000 members) were ready to walk out. A stoppage in aluminum would slow planemakers, missilemakers, other...
Administration Pressure. So eager was Labor Secretary James Mitchell to bring about a steel truce that he went back to an 1888 statute (affecting the duties of the U.S. Labor Commissioner) to find authority for stepping into the dispute as a one-man factfinder. Said Mitchell: "In the interest of the American people, all the reasons for and circumstances surrounding the present strike should and must be determined. I will keep the President advised periodically as to the facts...