Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...natural voice, but more striking is her versatility of dramatic expression. In one scene, she coos sweetly over the new-born babe as the group sings "Virgin Mary Had a Little Baby," and in a subsequent number, she brandishes a mean pen-knife in a rowdy rendition of "Union Maid." Although 3 Folk Sing is nominally a trio, there is also a fourth, Paul Prestopino, a talented instrumentalist who accompanies the others. With his black beard and black-rimmed glasses, he provides added flavoring to the "Family of Man" atmosphere...
...various phases of man's life: work and praise, sorrow, prayer, complaint, and love. Between each number the theatre is blackened and the performers take their positions for the next of the songs--some interpreted as still pictures, others with lively action. In the "complaint category," for example, "Talking Union" and "Union Maid" are done with audience participation, including community singing on the chorus of the latter. The cast distributes union handbills reading "Oust Boss Gunch" and "If yer gonna split Atoms you can't split Ranks." (Jones had the handbills printed from old union woodcuts he found...
Furthermore, Cooper had an answer for Steelworkers Union President David Mc Donald's claim that a wage hike carved out of profits or dividends would add new purchasing power to the economy. The stockholders, said Cooper, need the money worse than the workers. He cited a 1953 survey which showed that 53% of U.S. Steel individual stockholders had an average annual income from all sources that was actually less than the average annual income of the Steelworkers...
Undergraduates will again be asked for their considered opinion of the courses they have taken during the year, in preparation for the publication of ANNUAL CRIMSON CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE TO COURSES. Polling will be done by means of a revised Confy Guide Questionnaire, and will begin in the Freshman Union at dinner tonight...
GENEVA, May 17--Western diplomats said tonight they may have to negotiate a separate stop-gap settlement with the Soviet Union after full debate of rival East-West German peace plans...