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Five months ago, union leaders in three major industries, one after another, demanded a 10% wage increase for their men. Fortnight ago, to back up their demand. 210,000 shipyard workers walked out of Britain's 70 yards, which have enough orders on the books to keep booming through 1961. Six days later, the 2,750,000 members of Britain's "engineering" unions began a "snowball strike," or progressive walkout, which by April 6 was scheduled to close down 4,300 factories producing everything from textile looms to bombers. In the background, muttering ominously, were...
Outside the Iron Curtain, Italy has more state-run businesses than any other European country. When Italy became a nation 96 years ago, her government inherited a Genoese shipyard from the old kingdom of Sardinia, and that was the state's start in business. Under 21 years of Fascism, the government got more and more deeply mixed up in the economy, and has never since got out of it. Today the government mines all of Italy's coal and 80% of her iron ore; it produces more than three-quarters of the nation's pig iron...
...Northern Ireland's Roman Catholic minority (34.2%) when she went to work a year ago as a stitcher in a Belfast garment factory. There she met several members of a splinter sect known as the Free Presbyterian Church, and soon she became a Protestant. Her father, a shipyard worker, and her mother were horrified; so was the parish priest. There were family conferences, prayers and tears. Then Maura Lyons disappeared...
FIRST FORMOSA SHIPYARD for tankers over 30,000 tons will be built by U.S. and Chinese investors. Mississippi's Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. has taken ten-year lease on Taiwan Shipbuilding Corp. yards at Keelung, will add $2,000,000 to Chinese investors' $10 million for expansion, says it already has two contracts for 32,000-tonners. Formosan shipworkers will be sent to U.S. for training...
Elected to Parliament in 1924 from the tough shipyard and foundry constituency of Stockton-on-Tees, Macmillan was deeply moved by the suffering that the Depression brought to his constituents, established "dole schools" which he personally financed, to teach unemployed workers useful crafts. In Parliament he acidly attacked the inaction of his own Conservative Party, called it a "party dominated by second-class brewers and company promoters." In 1936 he even crossed the aisle to vote with Labor in censuring the government's inaction in depressed areas. The task of his generation, he cried, was "to conquer poverty...