Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Regarding your Sept. 5 article, "Social Security; Nothing's Too Good for Grandpa...
...arriving at its decision, the board had struck a compromise solution. It recommended pensions and social insurance for workers, to be financed by the steel industry...
...Human Machine. The union did win one great advance. Murray's demands for social welfare had been 11.23? for old-age pensions, 6.27? for death and sickness insurance. The industry had gagged. It was particularly set against the idea of paying for pensions to which the workers themselves did not contribute. But the board, arguing that "a part of normal business costs is to take care of temporary and permanent depreciation in the human 'machine,' " upheld Murray. Although it trimmed his demands, it allowed 6? for pensions (to go into effect next spring), 4? for insurance. Many...
...board estimated that these assessments would cost the steel industry an average of 2½% of its total operating costs, and that the industry could afford that. For workers, the pension plan (supplemented by federal social security) would provide an income of around $100 a month after...
...membership rolls to be ready for underground activity. Moreover, the peace rally could boomerang on party members in some countries. Brazil's Deputy Pedro Pomar, who is a member of the outlawed Communist party but holds his seat because he was also elected on the Social Progressive ticket, was threatened with expulsion from Brazil's Congress after saying in Mexico that Brazil's armed forces were ruled by "Yankee generals...