Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...railroad worker in Washington, B.C.. Baylor learned his basketball playing settlement-house and playground ball ("I'd play anywhere to get a game"). When he graduated from high school in 1954, his marks were as bad as his basketball was good, but he landed a scholarship at tolerant College of Idaho. Freshman Baylor averaged 31 points a game, led the team to a 23-4 season, then transferred to Seattle University, where he really developed his talents. Last year Baylor trapped rebounds one-handed on the backboard, scored 32.5 points a game (second to Cincinnati's Oscar...
...million U.S. workers-nine out of every ten-1959's first pay envelope was a little slimmer than 1959's last one. Reason: the social security nibble, which started out at 1% of the first $3,000 of pay back in 1937, increased at year's beginning from 2½% of the first $4,200 of pay to 2¼% of the first $4,800 (up $25.50 to $120 a year for a worker who makes $4,800 a year or more). But when 1959's first social security checks go out in the mail, they...
...rejoicing over this "great leap forward" could hardly be heard last week in Red China's cities. Reason: city dwellers had just been told that, despite the talk of a record yield, their grain rations had been cut. A "very heavy worker" in Peking, who used to get the maximum of 20.6 lbs. of wheat flour a month, will now get only twelve. Similar cuts hit the smaller rations of white-collar workers, shopkeepers and children...
Modern working conditions are also an important factor. Union strength builds largely on discontent; today's worker, with his high wages and fringe benefits, finds less and less to be discontented about. He works, says A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Kassalow, "in one of these clean, modern, well-run factories [that] do not strike with the same force that hit the young farmer who came up to the dirty tire plants of Akron or the hot, badly ventilated assembly lines of Detroit, 15, 20, 25 years ago." Union leaders realize that they have come a long way since then. Says...
Mass production unions have been deeply affected by the fact that the unskilled worker, once the core of their power, has become the vanishing American. Highly mechanized plants have forced workers to develop new skills; the new class of skilled labor has fractured the monolithic front that the mass-production unions once presented to management. To hold the allegiance of skilled workers, unions are revising their organization. The U.A.W. recently amended its constitution to allow skilled workers to veto contract clauses that affect them, took great pains in last summer's contract negotiations to win an extra...