Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...encourage the quality of production to the point where a worker does not have to have a supervisor standing behind him checking his work" He estimated the bureaucrats at 850,000 and promised a reduction...
Fourteen of the 17 employees eligible to vote in jurisdictional elections yesterday chose to be represented by the A.F.L. One bindery worker voted against both the HUERA and the AFL, and two did not participate in the election conducted by the Massachusetts Labor Relations Board. The AFL petitioned ten days ago for the election...
Beck and Hoffa are proof that the worker is still a peon to the union, and that the politician is far from a true American in allowing him to be exploited...
Khrushchev did not expect the West to believe that Soviet workers would gladly accept the loss of a theoretical 260 billion rubles on outstanding loans. Grunted Nikita: "Comrades, the capitalist-that shopkeeper who would slaughter his own father for a half-percent interest-will never believe that you consent to this of your own free will. He will read about it in the papers and say they have intimidated the workers and peasants." And in fact there were two reasons why the Soviet worker might not be wholly displeased with the state pig passed to him by Khrushchev...
More important, the number of white-collar and other service employees per production worker is on the increase because more of them are needed to sell, distribute and service the greater outpouring of goods from the more efficient production lines. If all factory employees were counted in, said BLS, it would be necessary to subtract at least 1% from the manufacturing productivity gains in 1954, 1955 and 1956. This would all but wipe out any gain last year...