Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workers in U.S. steel mills want their union (membership: 1,250,000) to push for higher wages? Yes, of course, says the United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald, getting ready to call a strike when present contracts run out in early summer. No, says doorbell-ringing Pollster Samuel Lubell, after interviewing steelworkers in ten cities around the U.S. "Of the steelworkers interviewed," reports Lubell this week for United Feature Syndicate, "five of every six are against further wage hikes...
...really big concern that gnaws most steelworkers today," reports Lubell, "is the dread of unemployment." And with an economic sophistication that might surprise some of their union chieftains, many steelworkers see that "raising wages may mean less jobs," that higher costs in U.S. steel mills spur imports of foreign steel. Concludes Pollster Lubell: "Often it is asserted that labor leaders have little choice but to demand ever higher wages because of pressure from their own membership . . . My talks with steelworkers leave little doubt that currently the main pressures for 'more' are being generated by the union leaders...
...advanced the claim that Red China's industrial and agricultural output increased by 65% in 1958-"a speed which has never been attained and cannot be attained under the capitalist system." No less fantastic were the production targets announced for this year: 18 million tons of steel (up 54% over 1958), 380 million tons of coal (up 41%), 525 million tons of grain (up 40%), 40 million kilowatt-hours of electricity...
...Montreal, the stubby Canadian icebreaker d'Iberville swung into the steel grey current of the St. Lawrence one morning last week to lead a column of ships in a slow parade upstream. D'Iberville's decks swarmed with visitors; her rigging danced with bunting; and ships still at their moorings bellowed hoarse salutes. Otherwise, no one bothered with ceremony; Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower will meet in Montreal June 26 for the formal dedication...
United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* A first teleplay by Joe Palmer Jr.; Actor Richard Boone (The Rivalry; Have Gun, Will Travel) plays a tuberculosis patient of unusual imagination...