Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average citizen in California, Oregon and Washington voted for pensions with something of the attitude of a nightclub sot listening to Mother Machree-it was hard to be critical because the words were so sad. Furthermore many of the old folks had a legitimate case. But this summer thousands of taxpayers were recalling their own generosity with purse-clutching alarm. The Pacific Coast had become a minor-league welfare state of its own, and new pension and welfare plans seemed to be pushing the states toward the brink of bankruptcy...
Saved by the Bell. Oregon was in less perilous financial condition. Its voters passed an initiative measure like California's last autumn. They were rescued by their own shortsightedness-they voted for pension increases which would have cost more than the whole expense of running the state, but they failed to provide any means of paying them...
...instituted labor-management committees to inspect sanitary conditions, curb contractors' malpractices and set piece rates. The I.L.G.W.U.'s Socialist leaders were demanding of industry the security that rugged individualism refused them. They set up unemployment funds, fought for pension plans, minimum wage scales and sickness benefits. In 1913 they established the first union health center in one shabby room. Says Dubinsky today: "This was the sentiment of the members. They championed the same ideas that later on Roosevelt made them the law of the land. I merely probably expanded...
...origin of the evil...The Communists took advantage of the situation, but also the self-interest of some other quarters is much to blame. Capital was given remunerative prices; now it is time for workers to get the same." He proposed reforms in public medical care, better pension laws. And he ordered bus fares reduced...
Profits & Pensions. Because stale stock ruined many a candymaker, Schnering sidestepped jobbers outside metropolitan centers, and developed a system whereby hundreds of truck-driving salesmen supplied Curtiss dealers. He spurred sales with profit & pension plans, and his 7,000 employees have never shown much interest in unionism...