Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, March 1--Congressional concern mounted today over the possibility the Soviet Union may start a war over Berlin...
Brannan Revisited. The failure of Congress and the Administration to cope with the farm scandal has revived talk among Democrats about the once-buried Brannan plan, devised in 1949 by Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan (now general counsel of the left-wing Farmers Union). Under that scheme, the farmer would sell his crops on the free market, and the Federal Government would send him periodic checks to make up the difference between market prices and support prices. Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge is sponsoring a Brannan-type measure to cover the six "basics" (wheat, corn, cotton...
...Sons of Habitués." Starting each pleasant day, David Dubinsky, grizzled chief of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, went down to the hotel pool in a flowing bathrobe, red and black sandals. Afternoons-to rest from the brief morning business sessions-he spent swimming in the surf with his 13-year-old granddaughter. Spade-bearded Jacob Potofsky of Amalgamated Clothing Workers strolled poolward in a natty blue-and-white beach jacket and Hollywoodish sunglasses. Sparking the livelier set, the Electrical Workers' Carey demonstrated fancy dives from handstands on the high board. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany appeared...
...Union of South Africa: Philip Kingsland Crowe, 51, wartime OSS officer in East Asia, Ambassador to Ceylon (1953-56), lately Secretary Dulles' special assistant for confidential press relations (policy guidance, planned news leaks). Crowe's successor as briefing officer: Pennsylvania Banker William Warren Scranton, 41, civic leader, whose ancestors gave their name to the Pennsylvania industrial city of Scranton, formerly Slocum Hollow...
PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 27--David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers Union, talked with enthusiasm today about workers spending less time in mills. But he said the USW policy makers must decide if reduced work schedules will be an issue in forthcoming contract negotiations with the basic steel firms...