Word: labors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clement Attlee to send Parliament home and set the election for early in 1950. Attlee, slumped on the government front bench and looking funereal in his black coat and neat striped trousers, seemed not to hear. But London political dopesters now think the election will be held earlier than Labor had planned. Best guess: February or March...
Britain's Labor government and British labor were heading for a showdown. For more than two years, the trade unions had grudgingly gone along with the government's policy of virtually freezing wages & prices. But when devaluation of the pound thawed out some prices and sent them climbing upwards, the unions' rank & file rebelled. Britain's T.U.C. (Trades Union Congress) presented new demands: higher wages, more government subsidies to keep food prices down, additional taxes to cut down business profits...
...T.U.C. leaders ruefully gave in, agreed to a freeze of wage levels for one year. The T.U.C. has no authority to make its decisions binding on its members, but it looked as if most of its unions would stick to the agreement. British labor was still learning the hard lesson that Britain's Socialist government could be a good deal tougher than the bosses with whom Ernie Bevin bargained in his trade-union days...
Sweethearts & Five Stars. Communist troops have been as anxious as the British to avoid incidents along the border between the British enclave and Red China, which runs along the main street of Sha-taokok village (see cut). But Communist influence daily makes itself felt in the colony. Through labor unions, the Communists already have a grip on Hong Kong's light & power, transportation, docks and its telephone system. A typical crisis arose last week when a young Chinese telephone worker claimed he had been slapped by a British supervisor. The worker's union threatened to strike unless...
...Nadke High School (during the war the headquarters of the U.S. 96th Division), old, bushy-haired Principal Matsugoro Shimabukuro sighed: "The students here are too puzzled to have any fixed hopes. Why bother to graduate from high school if the only job you can get is working on a labor gang for the American Air Force...