Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn our cameras over to two local trade union workers who in turn give us white robes, and we follow after the rapidly moving Ted Spear...
...inspection of the Armour slaughterhouses took place with such rapidity that we could use our notebooks only back in the office. Here, in the presence of the two trade union workers, who returned our cameras and took our white robes, the conversation continued...
...Spear looks questioningly at the trade union workers. That question, evidently, is outside of his jurisdiction; he only represents management...
While they worked behind the scenes, President Eisenhower appeared at the meeting to make a plea for his foreign-aid program. Part of that program, said Ike, is "a freer flow of world trade. We must do this without prejudice to our national security and without inflicting undue hardship on our local producers. Especially among the less-developed countries we must use every available means to assure that these people not only add to the free world's strength, but eventually become valued participants as both sellers and buyers in the markets of world trade...
Despite Ike's urging, it was soon clear that the protectionists had accomplished their task. When the chamber issued its 32-page policy statement, some of the strongest bids for free trade were deleted. Gone was the sentence: "For the benefit of the economy of the nation as a whole, business and Government should encourage increased imports into the U.S." Also struck out was the chamber's opposition to "Buy American legislation." A chamber spokesman denied that the chamber had changed its views, called the alterations in the text "little sops that helped quiet the opposition...