Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mill newly set up by Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom. Time and again as the Industrial Revolution spread, workmen fearful of losing their livelihood attacked new labor-saving machines with hammers and torches. Even today, some labor unions (e.g., building trades, printers, stagehands, locomotive engineers) combat technological progress with featherbedding practices; their leaders regard automation with a milder and more law-abiding version of the 18th century loom-wrecker's wild fear...
President of the A.L.A.'s biggest local (New York City), Swayduck, 46, has been urging technological progress in lithography ever since boyhood, when he chided his father, owner of a small lithography shop in Indianapolis, for sticking with old-fashioned techniques. After he became a lithographer himself, the younger Swayduck saw technological changes-rotary instead of flatbed presses, metal instead of stone plates, new color-printing techniques-lead to more and more jobs for lithographers at higher and higher pay (now $125 to $200 for a 35-hour week). Convinced that unions ought to promote higher productivity, not resist...
...broke the rhythm by announcing the abrupt scrapping of the current five-year plan (1956-60) before it had even reached the halfway mark. In its stead there is to be a seven-year plan running from 1959-65. Radio Moscow tried its best to make this sound like progress: "Large new deposits of various raw materials and sources of power have been discovered in recent years," and thus "there are possibilities for creating new enterprises and industrial centers not envisaged in the sixth five-year plan...
...President and the State Department to get pleas for larger and more flexible Foreign Aid funds. Eisenhower has noted that "one third of all mankind" was awakening to wants and potentialities. The importance of guiding the rising restlessness and energies of underdeveloped peoples into democratic channels of progress could not be overemphasized, for either humanitarian or security reasons. If the national leaders of Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America are not successful in leading their people into the twentieth century they will be replaced, and in all probability by more extreme and opportunistic leaders. To maintain domestic...
...with their capitalism. Over the years they led in raising industrial wages, improving the health and housing of employees. Eighty per cent of the wealth of Tata Sons was systematically given away to charitable trusts. When leftists say capitalism is passe, Tata replies: so is socialism. "Considering the remarkable progress made in capitalistic countries, particularly since the war, such a view can only refer to the 19th and early 20th century type of capitalism, which is, indeed, just as out of date as the 19th and early 20th century type of socialism...