Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spinner Harry Jackson, waiting for work in a Bolton mill, explained how it happened to him. "My wife works in the mill. Now she's on short time. Last week we were earning together nearly ?18 ($50.58); now, only four or five." In grim, workaday Bolton, where a third of the population depends on the mills, there were thousands of Harry Jacksons. In crowded Lancashire, there were 70,000 wholly or partly unemployed...
...will "respect the C.T.C. as an organization," Batista promised only to leave Mujal on the job "as long as the workers want to keep him." Strikes and new wage claims, he added, would not be tolerated. Even before this-in fact, from the day Batista took over-sugar mill-owners, manufacturers and hotelkeepers reported a sudden end to such nuisances as wildcat strikes and "disrespect...
...Mill on the Po could have been an excellent dramatization of the conflicts between Italian landlords and tenant farmers at the end of the nineteenth century. Recalling the first formulation of agricultural unions in the Po valley, it is a sharp, artistic portrait of the worker and his overlord. Each wrestles with the other to retain his inherited rights; yet it is clear that both are being beaten by rapid industrialization which forces everyone to abandon the traditional methods in order to survive. For two thirds of the movie each faction moves nearer and nearer to the inevitable clash...
...Mill on the Po can also boast the intelligent, graceful performances of Carla del Poggio and Jacques Sernas who play the couple. They are the victims of the class war. Sernas, an intelligent youth, wants to accept the new conditions and learn to manipulate the new machines, but cannot do so without opposing his family and friends who cling stubbornly to tradition. In his failure to arrange a compromise we see the meaning of the film--the defeat of both sides...
...Republican voters include a high proportion of prosperous, middle-class Yankees, all the influential Republican leaders were for Taft. Before he made his speech there, Tilton was considered a Taft stronghold. There was no Eisenhower organization. The vote: Eisenhower 161, Taft 153. At Berlin (pop. 16,545), a paper-mill town in the far north, Candidate Harold Stassen spoke to 800 and the next night Taft talked to 1,200. The vote: Eisenhower 933, Stassen 814, Taft...