Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congress & Labor...
Sitting in the driver's seat of his rough-and-ready Teamsters Union, Jimmy Hoffa last week set out full blast to run down the mild-reforming Kennedy labor bill, which rolled through the Senate (TIME, May 4) and is due up soon in the House. While Hoffa's aides in Washington were buttonholing Congressmen in an effort to kill or soften the bill-aimed principally at the Teamsters' own flagrant abuses of power-Boss Hoffa popped into Nashville to blow the horn not only on the legislation but on his archenemy, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany...
...flood of refugees who pour daily into West Berlin, most of them ultimately to be flown out to the "mainland" of West Germany. Since the majority of the refugees are young, their flight is turning East Germany into a nation of oldsters; it is also creating a labor shortage in East Germany. Since 1949 more than 2,000,000 people have fled East Germany-more than three times the natural population increase. Says Willy Brandt: "When East Germans ask me what to do ... I tell them to stay as long as they can manage." His reason: the fear that...
...Yemeni, including several Cabinet ministers, scimitar-bearing guards, three of his Queens, 23 concubines (who, according to the Italian Foreign Office, are not genuine harem types, "just slaves"). The Imam spends his time in Rome's Villa Margherita clinic, where a dozen doctors, both Yemeni and Roman, diligently labor to resharpen the Sword of Islam. Meanwhile, the women lounge around a beach hotel near Rome, relishing television, ice cream and high-calorific Italian cooking. They are protected from prying newsmen by dagger-brandishing Yemeni guards on the premises, jittery carabinieri at the portals...
MINIMUM WAGE LAW for about 2,500,000 retail and service industry workers not currently covered by legislation will be pushed by Labor Secretary Mitchell. He wants $1 an hour minimum to cover enterprises with 100 or more employees, which use $1,000,000 annually in goods involved in interstate commerce. The Administration proposal will go up against the Kennedy-Morse bill, which would boost the minimum wage to $1.25 an hour, add coverage to include 7,800,000 employees of businesses with gross annual sales of $500,000 or more...