Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fanatical Arab nationalist, Aref campaigned from the early days of the revolution for speedy union with Nasser's United Arab Republic. Kassem, a lean, brooding soldier with no political experience, wanted to keep Iraq independent of Cairo, and to fight off the Arab nationalist pressures made common cause with the Communists, who now control the street mobs of Baghdad. The two "brothers" fought, and Aref found himself accused of conspiring against the state and of trying to assassinate Kassem...
...jumping the gun on wage increases, Cannon not only avoided having the textile industry ordered about either by the union or the Government. He also got in first with a 6% to 7% wage increase, lower than some competitors had been discussing, and well within the ability of his company and the industry to pay in the light of textiles' growing recovery from its long postwar slump (TIME, Dec. 8). Since the last pay raise in 1956, textile productivity has risen...
...Cannon move was adroitly timed to yank a rug from beneath the A.F.L.C.I.O. Textile Workers Union of America, which opens its convention in Charlotte, N.C. this week. The T.W.U.A. has never made much progress in organizing Cannon Mills. At Kannapolis, N.C., the company headquarters, where Cannon contributes heavily toward police, churches, golf course, etc., the union has lately been distributing leaflets pointing out that Southern textile wages, averaging $1.43 an hour, are substantially below the $2.17 average for all U.S. manufacturing. Nationally, the textile industry pays the lowest wages of any basic industry...
BETWEEN now and 1970, predicted Nikita Khrushchev recently, the Soviet Union will catch and then pass the U.S. as the world's foremost economic power. Russian output will race ahead, he said, at the rate of 8.6% annually; the U.S. is poking along at less than 2%. Khrushchev's brassy boast is open to doubt: the U.S. puts out accurate figures, but no one can vouch for the Russian "percentages." The real question is whether the U.S. is growing fast enough, not just to stay ahead of Russia, but for its own economic wellbeing...
Died. Daniel Francois Malan, 84, one-time (1948-54) Prime Minister of South Africa. Boer supremacist who sent the Afrikaans word apartheid ricocheting around the world; following a stroke; in Stellenbosch, Union of South Africa. Among Malan's ambitions were the preservation of Africa for the Afrikaners and the creation of a "New Jerusalem"; i.e., a Boer republic, where "the sacred Boer race" would not suffer "pollution" by the black man. Among his achievements was a clause added to the national constitution: "The People of the Union acknowledge the sovereignty and guidance of Almighty...