Word: travailing
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...this year been hearing its strongest parliamentary attacks on monopolies, and may wind up with the first antimonopoly bill in its history. Last summer, news of the U.A.W.-Ford guaranteed annual wage agreement rocked the national convention of France's 2,000,000-member Confederation Generate du Travail, and seriously weakened Communist control. In today's booming Federal Republic of Germany, an industrialist who has not been to the U.S. to study production methods is not seriously listened to. In Mexico, Sears, Roebuck & Co., G.M. and Ford have raised wages, granted pensions and health plans, and given Mexico...
Inspired by such groups as the Peasant Brothers and the Little Sisters and Little Brothers of Abbe Foucauld, Abbe Roussel got church permission in 1947 to found his Institut Seculaire de Travail leuses. Since then, he has lived in the buckle of Paris' red belt-the dingy factory suburb named for St. Denis, when only 2,000 of 25,000 people ever go to church. Here, in a tiny, fourth-floor walk up with a cold-water tap in the back court and one toilet to 16 families, he directs the work of his 25 missionar> women...
...France, the Communists control the biggest union of them all. The Communist-dominated Confederation General du Travail (CGT) claims 4,000,000 members, probably has at least 2,000,000, and occupies strategic positions throughout French industry and transport. It has long outgunned and outshouted a cluster of loosely joined non-Communist trade unions boasting about 1,500,000 members. But last week the Communist unions suffered a stunning defeat...
...grown bitter. He is not yet a card-carrying Communist. But he has joined the Red-led Confédération Générate du Travail, and he is swallowing Communist propaganda. The Communists predicted German rearmament, defeat in Indo-China, economic misery. "It's the only party that tells the truth," Bérard argues. Deep down, Jean is less a militant pro-Communist than a bitter man protesting. More than anything he would like to be somebody else. "If my parents had money, I would have been a student, and I think I would...
...College at Nagpur, India, and Henry W. Luce visiting professor of world Christianity at New York's Union Theological Seminary. By showing Asians the bitter divisions within Western Christendom, denominational missions "sterilized the possibility of the genuine Christian community arising [and] sowed the seeds of division . . . All the travail that we now have to unite the churches is [the] result...