Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against this grey background, the United Automobile Workers' President Walter Reuther vowed in a speech at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City that labor would enter the coming year's collective bargaining "mindful of our broad economic and social responsibilities." Did this declaration mean that Reuther would urge his fellow labor leaders to refrain from pushing wages up during an economic lull, so as to avoid increasing business costs and consumer prices? Did it mean that, since labor's overall output per man-hour has increased very little over the past two years, labor would concentrate...
...booting out tainted unions-the Teamsters, Bakery and Confectionery Workers and Laundry Workers-the A.F.L.-C.I.O. chiefs at Atlantic City did indeed show a sober sense of responsibility. But when it came to "broad economic and social responsibilities" in collective bargaining, it looked as if labor's leaders in 1957 had not pushed very far beyond A.F.L. Founder Samuel Gompers (1850-1924), who once summed up labor's economic philosophy for his day in a single word: "More...
...paint, in terms of his "greatest anxiety," the dismal picture of the "City of the World." The U.S., said he, would have to work harder on defense, expand foreign aid. But it could by no means back out on any of its welfare programs, e.g., "education, slum clearance, health, social security." Guns plus butter, Stevenson admitted, would "take a lot of money." How could it be done? And what about inflation? Quipped Adlai Stevenson: "Well, that's another speech-probably for a Republican...
...help is not the employee who goes on an occasional binge but the worker whose job suffers from his drinking. "You must be very careful," says Dr. Harold Vonachen, head of Caterpillar Tractor Co.'s medical department, "that you're not dealing with just the social phenomenon of martinis before dinner or drinking one too many on Saturday night." To discover the man who is having real trouble handling his liquor -and the problem strikes executive and machinist alike-companies brief supervisory personnel on the signs to watch for, such as frequent absenteeism (usually beginning on Monday), irritability...
Sylvia Wright's book has a misleading title. Get Away From Me With Those Christmas Gifts is not about the Joys of Christmas; it is a book of social criticism disguised under a title calculated to con the unsuspecting Christmas shopper...