Word: trade-union
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...thought we knew a few things about trade-union corruption," he said, "but we didn't know the half of it, one-tenth of it, or the one-hundredth part of it. We didn't know, for instance, that we had unions where a criminal record was almost a prerequisite to holding office under the national union. We didn't know that we had top trade-union leaders who made it a practice to secretly borrow the funds of their union...
...standing mediation offer of Tunisia's Premier Habib Bourguiba and Morocco's moderate Sultan Mohammed V. Quick to understand the significance of the FLN move, French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau dispatched young (31) Foreign Affairs Ministry Aide Jean-Yves Goëau-Brissonnière to a trade-union congress in Tunis, ostensibly to act as an "observer," actually to sound out FLN leaders...
...page list of charges, summoned Beck to a hearing before his brother vice presidents on the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council. Unanimously the 25 council members who heard the charges decided that "there is not the faintest question in our minds that Beck is completely guilty of violating the basic trade-union law that union funds are a sacred trust." Even this was not strong enough for George Meany. He needed an additional 20 minutes to tell the pudgy pride of Puget Sound "what I thought of his actions...
...Since their one pay raise in 1951, the G.P.s have averaged only $6,221 a year from N.H.S. (for cruelly long hours, including night calls); most pick up a few hundred more in special fees or by working for industry. Last summer the powerful British Medical Association and its trade-union shadow, the British Medical Guild, decided that something must be done. They drummed up doctors' indignation, presented the government with a demand for a 24% across-the-board increase. Trying to check Britain's wage-price spiral, the government flatly refused...
...police. All the Kremlin talk of coexistence, and Russia's downgrading of Stalinist police methods, had made the AVH feel that they might be sold out at any time by their Moscow bosses. Now a new Hungarian security-police force, composed of old AVH stalwarts, diehard Communists and trade-union toughies, to the number of 10,000, has been formed, and every effort is being made to make them feel that not only do they have the backing of Moscow, but of the whole Communist world. This was the main reason last week for the visit to Budapest...