Word: union
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elliott returned to Cambridge last week after touring the Soviet Union with vice-President Nixon and his official party. Elliott commented that Nixon's trip was "a great success" and added that he hopes "the aftermath will be equally successful...
George Parker Berry, Dean of the Medical School, said that this union "will create for both disciplines greater opportunities to reach out toward new frontiers of knowledge...
...chief executives of the three largest U.S. steel companies faced a task that was a mixture of. pride and embarrassment. With the steel union in its third week of a strike for higher wages, they went before reporters and microphones last week to announce the biggest sales and earnings in their history. The figures for the top eleven steel firms that have reported for the half year were so extraordinary that they immediately set off a new duel between management and labor, brought widespread suggestions that the industry consider a cut in steel prices to share its profit performance with...
...major degree a result of robbing business from the third quarter." Such profits, he said, must be "the regular order of business" if the industry is to modernize and grow, compete against foreign firms and other materials at home. But the industry's argument did not stem the union's expected attack. Cried Steelworkers Boss David J. McDonald: "The astronomical profit figures completely demolish the excuse the companies have used to force this shutdown. How can they possibly justify a heartless denial of needed benefits to their workers, who have produced this mammoth pile of profits...
...double shock. He heard reports that the firm's composing-room employees had been "molesting" women workers in the plant-patting them, whistling at them, and making gamy comments about what Brooklyn calls "the built." He also learned that the eight men had joined the International Typographical Union. They were all fired. Last week, in a tough yet tongue-in-cheek decision, a National Labor Relations Board trial examiner ruled that union organizing, not sex, was responsible for the firings, ordered the men reimbursed with lost pay. He also read Boss Santangelo a lecture of his own on factory...