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...Assembly, the Socialists and the moderate Popular Republicans, who form France's biggest political bloc, held 60%. By voting for a strong executive, the electorate showed its support of Provisional President Charles de Gaulle. But this swing seemed also a rebuke to the General, a demand for a speedup of the socialistic reforms drafted by the underground and tacitly approved by his Government in the early days of liberation...
While Rome seethed, the Government decreed a shake-up of the police, a speedup of the purge. The Communists did a triple political somersault: 1) they announced that the slain demonstrator was not a Communist: 2) most of the Communists at the Colosseum, it was said, were not Party members, but belonged to the Movimento Communista (Communist Movement*); 3) they ordered Unità's Editor Spano to confess that he had acted not as a Party man but as an "individual...
...rocket shells ground to a halt. A war of words ensued. The company charged the eight dismissed men with loafing and insubordination, said they would not produce 184 gears on machines capable of 225. The union charged that the rate had been raised from 108, lifted the cry of "speedup," said Chrysler was deliberately stirring up trouble in the hope of wrecking the union. Top officers of U.A.W.-C.LO. deplored the strike as "unauthorized." Nevertheless, it existed...
Despite these glowing results, WPB has found the going hard. Most labor unions, notably the powerful United Automobile Workers-C.I.O., oppose incentive wages as a general system, suspecting that they are the hated speedup. Many an employer is also suspicious, fearing that unions might use incentive plans to get a foot in the door of management...
...This is wastage which the A.A.F. has tried to cut down - even by court-martialing of fenders against prudence - and with some success. High as it was, the accident rate in August 1944 was less than half what it was in the confused December of 1941. Considering the wartime speedup, plus the added toughness of training, it was probably not notably out of scale with the peacetime accident rate for military flying training, which is never completely healthy even when every precaution can be taken...