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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania. The boss had called them out in March and again in June. In July he had put them on a three-day week; in September he had ordered them into a full-scale strike which had ended in the uncertain three-week truce. Among the highest paid industrial labor in the U.S. when they work, the miners had worked only a total of 160 days in 1949. They had lost some $450 million in wages. Their $150 million welfare fund, drained by 15 months of foolish, freehanded spending, was all but exhausted and all payments had been...
...morning in October 1933, Schomaker, Bridges and a Communist named Bruce B. Jones sat in a restaurant sipping coffee (paid for by Bridges) and talking. "In the course of the conversation," said the witness, "Jones put the $64 question to Bridges. The question was: 'When are you going to join the party, Harry?' Bridges already had the application." Bridges acted "kind of coy" for a few minutes, Schomaker went on, but finally he signed up under the name of Harry Dorgan, using his mother's maiden name...
Humanitarians & Bureaucrats. For more than half a century, under various parties, insular New Zealand, with its butter and mutton economy, has been an experimental laboratory for welfare statism. Today, social security-paid for by a flat 5% tax on all private and corporate income -includes state-paid old-age pensions, unemployment benefits, medical and hospital care. Industry is heavily regulated, trade unionism and industrial arbitration compulsory. Liberal and conservative governments have shared in the vast social experiments. But ever since the Labor Party took office in 1935, what had begun as a humanitarian drive gradually ossified into bureaucratic socialism...
Today, there are three main opinions on the food situation. The administration attitude is that the food is the best possible for the price paid, and that this best is good enough. Every student pays 58 cents a meal for 21 meals a week, and the average cost to the University of each meal served is 75 cents. The dining halls rely heavily on the fact that many do not eat every meal. Present complaints, according to the administration, are nothing more than the usual gripes...
...addition to the annual trip to Bermuda official invitations by both UCLA and the University at Berkeley for the rugby team to come to California, expenses paid, were announced...