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...Manila's block-long Soriano Building, the employees have a saying: "Pick up any piece of paper with writing on it from any drawer or table, and you'll find Soriano's initials on it." Don Andres Soriano not only leaves his mark on a mountain of paper work, but keeps a thumb on just about everything that moves in the Philippines. He is the islands' best-known businessman, biggest philanthropist, runs an industrial empire which provides the livelihood for 80,000 Filipino families. His enterprises' taxes (close to $30 million a year) make...
...Manila's big business bosses, whom he accuses of exploiting the workers, Hogan won labor's respect last year when he walked a picket line in the strike of ground personnel against Philippine Air Lines, owned by Brewery (George Muehlbach Brewing Co., Kansas City. Mo.) Tycoon Andres Soriano (TIME...
Half-colours were awarded to the following regular players on the first and second fifteen's: Thorpe Kelly, Audy Ecklund, Hollis Hunnewell, Doug Purdy, Pierre Lelandais, John Harley, Gerry Dekoch, Al Green, Bill Miller, Ken Kunhardt, Charley Whiting, Jose Soriano, Kit Kiang, Jay Lyons, Dwight Nishimura, Bill Swan, George Whitney, Jerry Cummings, and Sturgiss Eaton...
...Anger. At 6:15 one morning last week, two hours after Philippine Air Line workers, backed by the National Labor Union, had thrown a picket line around Manila's International Airport in a protest strike against anti-union firings, Colonel Soriano swept through the line in his Cadillac Fleetwood to see what was going on. A little later, escorted by two P.A.L. vice presidents and an armed guard, Soriano made a speech summoning the workers to return to their jobs...
...Soriano was speaking, Father Hogan took a place at the head of the picket line, earnestly urged the workers to stay out until their demands were met. This was too much for Philippine Labor Secretary Primitive Lovina, who also happens to be a close friend of Colonel Soriano. Hogan, Lovina said, was "an undesirable alien and a mere agitator...