Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decisions reached by the employees and employers in this field. It is a basic industry, and whatever is done affects all the rest of industry, and I can only say this: that we must look to them for some good sense and some wisdom-I mean real business-labor statesmanship-or in the long run the U.S. cannot stand still and do nothing...
...Communists from his government but achieved a look of political unity by giving three Cabinet posts each to opposition parties, only two to his own A.D. (Seven "independents" are all trusted Betancourt friends.) With a solid majority in Congress and state governorships, A.D. is launching a fight for the labor unions, heavily infiltrated by Communists after the dictator fled...
...choice of this road is Frondizi's own. Elected with the support of Communists and Peronistas, hailed as a man of the left, this cold realist soon concluded that he had to put an end to the labor featherbedding, price subsidizing and other self-indulgences institutionalized by Demagogue Juan Perón. Item: per capita gross national product had remained stationary for four years. Item: though Argentina ranked ninth in the world in oil reserves, the inefficient, 37-year-old national oil monopoly forced it to spend $300 million annually to import petroleum and refined products...
Frondizi turned his back on his leftist past, turned toward economic orthodoxy. Today the improved climate for foreign investment has resulted in deals for $1.2 billion of new foreign capital, and the Communist and Peronista-run unions have been sharply curbed; e.g., out of 95 labor organizations, four operate under army orders, 13 are run by government interventors...
...years of investigating labor rackets, the U.S. Senate committee headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan has found corruption under rock after rock-and on more than one occasion the enterprising U.S. press has helped the committee turn over the rocks. But last week the McClellan committee took a look at some of the press's own labor relations and found corruption, if not under a rock, at least on the New York loading docks. In three days of testimony it became all too clear that over a period of many years New York dailies have been paying...