Word: labors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fixed Ideas. Sawyer also issued a pointed warning to farmers and labor-the sharpest rebuke yet heard from a member of the Truman Administration. "Some so-called liberals," he said, "have adopted . . . the fixed idea that any increase in purchasing power of any one group is good no matter what its effect may be on other groups. To assume, however, that we can continue at all times and places to increase the share of the worker and the farmer without concern for the need for capital savings and the incentive of the businessman is out of keeping with the liberal...
...seems to me," he said in London, after a week of studying the Labor Government's plan at first hand, "that this program is working remarkably well and that it is a good thing for Britain. I can see now that most of the critics of our proposal in the United States have, whether deliberately or through ignorance, tried to mislead the American people on the facts about the British program...
...night this week in the county courthouse. It was something of a special occasion-Ottawa was the last stop on the Senator's 100-day politicking tour of his home state. Election day was still nearly a year away, but Taft was taking no chances, knowing that organized labor planned to spend millions in an effort to oust him from the U.S. Senate. Toting a spare suit and a few extra shirts and socks, the Senator had traveled through 75 of Ohio's 88 counties. He had delivered more than 300 speeches to more than 200,000 persons...
...Fair Deal: It would add $20 billion to the U.S. budget. "The Government would tell everyone when to work, what to do and when to sleep . . . It would lead to totalitarianism and a labor-socialist Government...
...Some Bad Times." Until ten years ago, said Clarence Wimpfheimer, president of Stonington, Connecticut's American Velvet Co., there were frequent labor disputes and "I had some bad times with the boys." After a 16-month strike, Wimpfheimer adopted a profit-sharing plan for his 350 employees, all members of the C.I.O. Textile Workers Union. The company, which has had no work stoppage since then, last year paid $180,000 into profit-shares and pension funds, equal to 22% of each man's wages...