Word: labors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...international's major concern would be "organizing the unorganized on a world basis, reorganizing the disorganized." From the Brussels headquarters organizers will go out to help infant labor movements in industrially backward countries -e.g., Korea and India. Representatives will be sent to watch labor conditions in the colonial areas of Africa. In Western Europe, I.C.F.T.U. will concentrate on the struggle to free labor unions from crippling Red infiltration...
...Oldenbroek, 52. Born in Amsterdam, he grew up in London and Hamburg, where his father, a cigarmaker, had set up shop. Beginning work at 14, as a clerk, he moved on to trade-union journalism, eventually headed the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation. A good-natured, soft-spoken labor diplomat as well as a staunch anti-Communist and a crack administrator, Oldenbroek seemed to many outsiders to be the ideal man for the job. "We are going to be efficient, in the American sense," he said last week. "That means when you want something...
Last week in London, the I.C.F.T.U. (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions) formally set itself up in business. In spite of some fraternal squabbles and a contest between American and British delegates for domination of the new labor international, the organization's birth pangs were relatively mild. It had managed to build the framework in which labor unions from 53 countries-including America's staid A.F.L., Britain's Socialist T.U.C. and (tentatively) the Continent's Catholic unions-could unite in their fight against Communism...
Almost from the start of the parliamentary campaign, Australia's Labor government had had its back to the ropes. Australians were plainly fed up with widening bureaucratic controls, gasoline rationing and high prices, creeping nationalization, hamstringing restrictions on private enterprise. Through the campaign Labor fought with feeble punches: Government orators warned that only Labor could maintain full employment; Labor propaganda included a "ticket" bearing a crossed pick & shovel and the slogan, "Express to the Golden Age." But Australia had been riding the express for eight years, had found no golden age, eaten no pie from...
...shirtsleeves and summer dresses, some 5,000,000 Australians went to the polls (voting is compulsory; slackers can be fined up to $5). They gave the combined Liberal and Country parties a clear majority of at least 27 seats (by incomplete count) in the new House of Representatives. Labor seemed sure of at least 46 seats out of a total of 123. In the victorious coalition the Liberals represented the professional and business classes; the Country Party the farmers. In the past these groups had not always cooperated. But against socialism they had a common front...