Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little Things. U.S. fighting men know that perhaps the greatest service being performed by the Red Cross is the one that seems the humblest-keeping up the morale of lonely men, whose homesickness is notorious. Said Red Cross Worker How ard Barr in Washington last week: "American soldiers were literally stunned when they saw Africa for the first time. . . . They thought they would find burning sands and blazing sun. . . . Instead they found intense cold . . . completely modern cities . . . Arabs and other natives who were unlike anything they had ever seen. . . . For the first time they really felt as though they were...
Next day WLB considered the case, reached no decision. To the union the board replied with an ultimatum of its own: unless workers stayed at their jobs no pay increase would be considered. The U.S. people wondered who was bluffing whom. At the Capitol, Congressmen condemned alike WLB indecision, Boeing worker brashness, threatened to revive anti-strike legislation...
From the House Naval Committee Lyndon Johnson rushed a "work or fight" bill. His plan: i) let every Navy Yard report worker absences to its local draft board; 2) let every board decide whether the employe should work or fight; 3) if the plan works in shipyards, extend it to every other war industry...
...citizens willing (for free advice, no pay) to air their troubles in love, marriage, money-the everyday problems of mankind. The advice is given by a jury of three visiting "experts," abetted by the program's originator: earnest, voluble, begoggled Albert Louis Alexander, onetime divinity student, actor, social worker, legman, radio announcer...
Britons last week got an idea of the reception that the Beveridge Plan for social reform may soon meet in Parliament. Up in the House of Commons was a Catering Bill introduced by hornyhanded Labor Minister Ernest Bevin. A restaurant worker before he became a dock worker, Bevin asked for a commission to investigate the catering business from top to bottom, then recommend any necessary reforms...