Word: union
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Popular Demand. In Rochester, William B. Ransco ran an ad in the Times Union: "Notice is hereby given that my dear wife has still another driver's permit. Please exercise extreme caution...
...Ollenhauer-the big names of Europe's three major socialist parties-all faced the same kind of trouble: the noisy outcries of leftist factions demanding that their parties outbid others in proposing compromises with the Russians. In Britain, Hugh Gaitskell challenged the nation's most powerful labor union by sternly rejecting its demand that Britain renounce the H-bomb. In France, Guy Mollet bluntly told his followers that if it is neutralism they want for France, he would quit as leader of the party. In West Germany, Erich Ollenhauer did quit. Putting the pieces together, TIME...
Weariness of price upcreep made many a union member skeptical about the value of wage boosts won by unions. Admitted a United Auto Workers official in Detroit, on the eve of the threatened steel strike (see BUSINESS) : "My guess is that the steel strike will get as little actual support, from the public and from labor in general, as any strike ever got. The average working stiff is becoming much more realistic about these things...
Directly hit by the strike were London's influential weeklies. The liberal New Statesman got into hot water with its labor friends by printing in Dlisseldorf, but was back in England a week later with union approval to hire a printer in Essex. The Economist, which was printed in a Swiss nunnery during a lesser strike in 1956, found a printer in Brussels, moved to Paris a week later, after Belgian unions expressed sympathy for the British strikers and threatened a boycott...
...survey of the steelworkers' working conditions showed that 40% regularly worked 72 hours a week or longer. Their median income was less than $12.50 a week. By contrast, the most recent figures on 1959 steelworkers' pay show average weekly income (for 40.7 hours) of $125.36, with the union (see above) threatening to strike for more...