Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While we are in an inflation-conscious mood, we might as well decide to be realistic about the current labor-management negotiations in the steel industry. As long as management is free to set its own prices, why should they bother to do anything else than follow the time-honored pattern of putting up a noisy but purely token fight? All they need do is haggle awhile and then give in. It is the public's money that they are bargaining with...
...industry cannot pay from three to eight times the hourly wages paid abroad and compete with foreign manufacturers. Let U.S. labor leaders in their endless quest for "more" chew on this hard, inescapable fact...
...shares are bought by maids and wealthy dowagers, by doctors and factory workers, by labor unions and clergymen. No amount is too large (many investors put in upwards of $250,000) or too small. A Maine farmer sent $5 "from the chickens I sold" to one fund, later followed it with a bigger check and a note explaining "These are my hogs"; by the time he had gone through his barnyard, he had invested $6,500, which has leaped in value to $14,000. Big investors also flock to the funds: such schools as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University...
...glove finesse that she brought to her stripping. Mama played by Merman is forbiddingly, tiresomely brassy, a kind of Orpheum-circuit Medea. At curtain's rise, Mama Rose has already devoured three unshowbusinesslike husbands and is panting to staff the vaudeville stages of the early 1920s with child labor, notably her little daughters June (Actress June Havoc in later life) and Louise (Gypsy). What follows is a kind of Dante's tour of the tank-town circuit, in which Mama Rose's aging small-fry troupe beds down in fleabag hotels, gobbles chow mein breakfasts, and endlessly...
Died. Carl Holderman, 65, longtime (1918-54) New Jersey union organizer, once described as "the movie idea of a genial Texas oilman"; of a heart attack; in Newark. Holderman was an early C.I.O. organizer, later headed the New Jersey C.I.O., was appointed state commissioner of labor and industry in 1954 by Governor Robert B. Meyner, cleaned house at the scandal-ridden labor department...