Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have assumed the responsibility of throwing out Batista's dictatorship and re-establishing the constitutional rights and freedoms of the people," Castro says. "Our first fight is for political rights-and after that for social rights." At Havana University ten years ago, Castro hotheadedly espoused a series of student-radical notions, e.g., nationalization of Cuba's U.S.-owned power and telephone companies. Now he says: "I am still the same revolutionary, but I have had time to study the political and economic factors. I understand that some ideas I used to have would not be good for Cuba...
...president of the huge (1,500,000-member) United Auto Workers, fire-breathing Walter Philip Reuther is a powerful organizer, bargainer, administrator, politician, social reformer. In addition, red-haired Walter Reuther is a shrewd, smooth public-relations man. Last week, invited to Washington to appear before the McClellan committee, Reuther found a capacity crowd on hand for the fireworks. But any public-relations man could recognize that the time was wrong for fireworks. In Detroit tough negotiations between the U.A.W. and the big three auto companies were under way in a climate of depression and gloom, with few rank...
...turn into new slums? Chiefly because admission to low-rent projects is controlled by the city, which sets an arbitrary income level for tenant families. As they rise on the economic ladder, the better-off families must move out, making room at the bottom for those whose economic and social levels are ever lower. There the gangs thrive, for as one Youth Board official says: "Wherever you have great population mobility and disrupted population areas, gangs spring up to replace the broken stability of the group." Adds a Brooklyn junior high school assistant principal: "The kids reflect the adults...
...Addressing the Arizona State Conference of Social Welfare last week, Denver's Juvenile Court Judge Philip B. Gilliam warned that 20 million youngsters will be moving into the delinquency-age field by 1968. Asked Gilliam: "Can you handle this load with your present facilities for welfare, recreation, police and education? . . . We don't understand juvenile delinquency. We've been told there is no such thing as a bad boy. Well, we're wrong. Most juvenile delinquents are meaner than hell...
...speculated that Reuther himself has little hope of winning a profit-sharing agreement, is only using it as leverage in the main fight for a hefty wage raise, despite all his "dead serious" talk of finding "a way by which wage earners can achieve their equity, their measure of social and economic justice." Reuther may even have trouble gaining much of a pay boost. With skidding sales, the industry can make a good case that it cannot afford it. Furthermore, there are rumblings of discontent within Reuther's own U.A.W. In all, 115,000 autoworkers are laid...