Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third of the Soviet Union is officially closed to tourists (the U.S. has retaliated by keeping an equal area closed to Russians), but the traveling choice is still wide. The tourist can visit 27 Soviet cities on any of 45 Intourist itineraries, ranging from five to 23 days. The main travel circuit includes Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Tbilisi (the Eastern-flavored capital of Soviet Georgia), and the seaside resorts of the Black Sea (Sochi, Sukhumi, Yalta). More adventurous tourists can go to Riga, capital of Latvia; Irkutsk, the burgeoning capital of eastern Siberia; or far east to Tashkent and Alma...
...State Supreme Court decision which the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review last week. What the Michigan court decision did was to repeal a longstanding rule that functionally integrated plants are all part of the same establishment. Hereafter, employers may be taxed to pay unemployment compensation even when the union strikes a plant on which the whole company operation depends for an essential part...
...reason for reopening a five-year wage contract, the U.A.W. claimed a safety violation at Canton, then the supplier of all the rear axle shafts used in Ford cars and trucks. The U.A.W. held the unionists out five weeks, forcing Ford to shut down across the nation, grant the union a big pension fund increase. The Michigan Employment Security Commission ruled that the Michigan workers were involved in the Canton strike and so were ineligible for unemployment pay. A circuit court upheld the commission. But last January the state's highest court reversed the ruling, ordered the commission...
...Ford and other automakers, the Michigan decision means that hereafter, when the union strikes a key production plant, the employers will have to pay the bulk of the strike benefits, except at the establishment actually on strike. Under the law, each company is liable for benefits paid to its employees. When its balance is drawn down, its payroll taxes go up until the proper reserve is established. In any future strike on the Canton pattern, said a Ford spokesman last week, the company must figure on paying $3,000,000 a week to U.A.W. members on top of the loss...
Died. Tshekedi Khama, 53, tough, durable chief (1926-50) of the Bamangwato tribe in the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland, who imposed education, modern sanitation and agriculture on his impassive, faction-torn tribe, fought off encroachments of the adjoining, racist Union of South Africa; of a liver ailment; in London. Impetuous Tshekedi was exiled twice: once (1933) for ordering a white man flogged who had abused a native woman (when the field gun of a punitive force sent to depose him bogged down in the mud, Tshekedi sent a team of oxen to haul it out); later (1950) for stormily objecting...