Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really big concern that gnaws most steelworkers today," reports Lubell, "is the dread of unemployment." And with an economic sophistication that might surprise some of their union chieftains, many steelworkers see that "raising wages may mean less jobs," that higher costs in U.S. steel mills spur imports of foreign steel. Concludes Pollster Lubell: "Often it is asserted that labor leaders have little choice but to demand ever higher wages because of pressure from their own membership . . . My talks with steelworkers leave little doubt that currently the main pressures for 'more' are being generated by the union leaders...
...Senate floor of the State Capitol in Richmond one day last week-some 98 years after Virginia voted 88-55 to secede from the Union-there were moments when it seemed that the senator from the Appomattox District wanted to secede again. Proclaimed Senator Charles T. Moses, waving a portrait of Robert E. Lee astride Traveller: "That's the man for states' rights! He didn't surrender! He just walked in to see General Grant, gave his hat to a courier and said, 'We're out of food!' " The occasion: the diehards...
Statewide Campus. Next to the last colony into the Union, North Carolina lacked good seaports for the cotton-slave boom that swept Virginia and South Carolina. "A vale of humility," the state was called, "between two mountains of conceit." In the Civil War it lost more soldiers than any other Confederate state; later it suffered its share of corrupt Reconstruction government until 1901. Heading the new leaders that year: "Education Governor" Charles B. Aycock, whose fiery crusade for schools got a new one built every day for ten years, gave education a permanent claim on a lion's share...
...chartered freighter to embrace, somewhat stiffly, the President of the Republic of Guinea, youthful (37) Sékou Touré. Later, when the two men stood side by side to review the tiny, 2,000-man Guinean army, a banner waved over their heads saying: "Vive I'Union Guinée-Ghana!" But last week, as Nkrumah started his long, 21-day conference with Touré, the big question was: How much life is there in their union...
When the two men, "inspired by the example of the 13 American colonies," joined forces last November, scarcely a month had passed since Guinea cut itself loose from France. To Nkrumah, the union seemed an auspicious first step toward an eventual United States of Africa, and he promised a $28 million loan. Of this sum, $11 million has been paid-half of it just before Nkrumah's arrival. Otherwise, the union has been largely talk. Touré, the junior partner, has been moving off in some alarming directions...