Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Target No. 1. Out of concern for ruffled French feelings, the U.S. and Britain held off from recognizing Touré's independent state. Communist Bulgaria sent Guinea its first full-fledged ambassador. The Soviet Union followed soon after. By last week, things had gone so far that a U.S. State Department official grimly told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Guinea had become Communism's No. 1 target in Africa. Touré has channeled at least a third of his total trade (chief exports: bananas, peanuts and coffee) to Eastern Europe...
...cracking down on those in his entourage who seem to be getting too cozy with Eastern Europe, operates like a Marxist. The two leaders, conferring through interpreters (Nkrumah speaks English, Touré French, and they have no common African language), pledged themselves to find ways of "re-enforcing" their union. But actually they were far apart. While Ghana is so flush with its latest cocoa crop that it is embarking on a $930 million five-year development program, Guinea has had to slash government salaries and adopt a budget that leaves no funds at all for development...
What changed Muñoz' mind was an upsurge of statehood sentiment after admission to the Union of Hawaii, which is also a racially dissimilar, noncontiguous U.S. possession. As a first step, he promised to request the island legislature to pass a resolution asking the U.S. Congress to grant whatever status the Puerto Rican people may choose in a plebiscite. Muñoz' proposal seems to be the proper start: U.S.-Puerto Rico relations are regulated by a compact that can be changed only by mutual consent. It also set the stage for a hot argument in Congress...
...which can account for 50% of a paper's budget, has soared from $41 a ton in 1933 to $135. The Linotype machine that sold for $8,000 twenty years ago costs $20,000 today. Technological gains in efficiency are largely neutralized by the fact that powerful shop unions prevent management from cutting payrolls, even though only half as many men may actually be needed to tend the new equipment. Union "make-work" practices such as "bogus"-the needless resetting of ads originally received in mat or plate form-waste millions of dollars a year. And labor costs have...
...bill got no support from unions or industry. Steelworkers Union Chief David McDonald opposed the bill because he felt it would have "a stifling effect on free collective bargaining." Freezing prices to halt inflation, said U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough, is "like trying to check the rising pressure in a steam boiler by plugging up the safety valve." The real cause of rising industrial prices since the war, charged Blough, is rising employment costs, which now "represent more than 75% of all costs." Furthermore, said Blough, the O'Mahoney bill would "diminish still further the profit incentive," could...