Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quiz-show scandals, payola and labor-union graft are simply the result of a trend of the times...
...away, beyond the crumbled desert hills of Pakistan's northwest frontier, past the snow-covered valleys that nestle in the Hindu Kush where Alexander and his Macedonians trod, lay Kabul and the feudal kingdom of Afghanistan (pop. 13 million). The Afghans, bordered by both the Soviet Union and Red China, are uncommitted in the cold war and wooed with aid from both the Soviets and the U.S. Even as Ike's plane winged over the mountains, an Afghan squadron of Russian-made MIGs took off to escort him toward Kabul, and Ike landed at an airfield built...
...from the eleven negotiating steel companies went letters and brochures to each employee setting forth the industry's "final" offer (it can still make another), which was actually made fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 30). Dave McDonald called it "a propaganda offer aimed at confusing the Steelworkers," and the union's official paper, Steel Labor, warned workers against bosses who go "out of their way for a pleasant 'Good morning, Joe,' " and "cheery letters from corporation presidents, no less...
...vote will probably be no-as it has always been in such cases-but industry was gambling that there would be enough yeses to embarrass McDonald. In any case, union leaders are not bound by the vote; they can call another strike even if workers want to accept the offer. If no settlement is reached, the Taft-Hartley injunction will be dissolved shortly after the vote. The Government will have no way of preventing a new strike, since the President has exhausted the measures he can take under the present law. Federal Mediator Joseph Finnegan called union and management together...
...subcommittee of Congress, is that at the outset of World War I, Russia was the world's sixth or seventh industrial power. But, said Dulles, "in the short space of 30 years since 1928, despite the ravages of four war years and several years of reconstruction, the Soviet Union has become second." Today, Dulles estimated, Russia's gross national product is around 45% of the U.S.'s G.N.P...