Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Employee relations, collective bargaining, publications, and "environmental engineering" are all in the realm of industrial relations. "The expert" said James De Pasquali of American Airlines, "must understand the needs of the worker and of the capitalistic system. He must become a skilled professionalist able to handle any area of boss-worker relations which may arise...
...administrations of five New York City colleges have voted not to allow John Gates, editor of The Daily Worker, to speak on their campuses...
...predictable that organized labor in industrialized Indiana, 18th state with a right-to-work law, would oppose a bill that bans the union shop (by forbidding employers to fire any worker for refusing to join a union). More significant, as a sign of how U.S.-style enlightened capitalism looks at labor-management relations, was the unpublicized opposition, while the measure was in the legislative mill, of several Indiana big businessmen. Among them: executives of Radio Corp. of America, Seagrams (liquor), the Allison Division (turbojet engines) of General Motors, and Cummins Engine, which manufactures half the diesel engines that propel...
...though to stress the fact that he would never run for office, Aramburu made little attempt to win popularity on his trip to the south. The petitioners who besieged him for schools, hospitals, street paving-and Salk vaccine-got patient, unsmiling audiences but few promises. A worker on the state railways wanted a transfer to another job: Aramburu crisply reminded him that the railways have 30,000 surplus employees. A delegation wanted the government to build their city a recreation hall. "For a billiard parlor?" asked Aramburu. "That sport of idlers...
...literature of every decade offers a classic confrontation which is both symbol and caricature of the prevailing conflict of ideas. In the books of the '20s the disenchanted and emancipated young confronted their hypocritical elders. In the '30s the worker at the barricades shook his fist at the bloated capitalist. In the '40s the man of freedom locked wills with the totalitarian zealot. In the '50s the basic confrontation - which all along has preoccupied writers, including W. H. Auden, Graham Greene. T. S. Eliot-may well be that of the psychiatrist...