Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clash and clangor of the 1959 session's biggest debate sounded in Congress last week as the Senate hammered out a labor-reform bill. That debate (see The Congress), despite its compromised outcome, marked a milestone in the U.S.'s social-economic history...
...passing an overdue labor reform bill, the Senate, as the expression of democracy at work, was reflecting not only public indignation at union corruption and racketeering, but also widespread dissatisfaction with Big Labor's outdated, class-against-class philosophy. What wide-ranging Pollster Samuel Lubell reported after talking to U.S. steelworkers (see Labor) indicates that many union members have come to see what some of their leaders have not yet acknowledged: the way for labor to get Sam Gompers' "more" is to share, fairly and responsibly, in the economy's overall growth...
Brought in to reform Montana State Prison at Deer Lodge after political appointees had mismanaged their way into a riot in 1957 and a sit-down strike in 1958, able Warden Floyd E. Powell, 46, gave convicts a break. He put salt, pepper, mustard and catchup on the mess-hall tables, instituted TV-watching hours, worked hard to shape up the grim, turreted brick buildings built...
...will bear careful watching in the months ahead. It remains to be seen whether Castro can control the forces he has let loose (executions continue with increased zeal and with new capital crimes invented all the time) and, equally important, whether he can institute programs for economic and social reform which will keep him in and Communists out of power. Observers have pointed out that Cuba could prove "another Iraq," with revolution by pro-Western forces proving merely the prologue to inceased Communist control...
...beginning on agrarian reform for the 800,000 country dwellers including landless guajiros (peasants) who live in dirt-floor, thatch-palm huts, subsist on the $3 daily they earn during the three-month sugar harvest...