Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merely another evidence of Shavian delight in biting the hand that feeds him was Shaw's championship of a simpler English. He is now backing a new system of "Universal Pidgin" advanced by Kenneth Littlewood, a 29-year-old Yorkshire munitions worker. In his spare time Littlewood prepared a primer based on the study of Russian, Latin, Greek, French, Welsh, Arabic and Basic English. Unlike Esperanto, Universal Pidgin seldom uses more than two syllables in any word, telescopes these with borrowed syllables to make new words. Sample: "Yon fo gret blu form bel" (Those four great blue flowers...
Some believe in a continuing policy of universal price controls, reinforced by an ever widening system of rationing. But if drastic rationing is pursued, absenteeism will almost certainly increase. For under indiscriminate rationing of luxury, as well as essential, goods, all workers share alike, no matter what they earn. The more likely alternative is that universal price ceilings will give, and a controlled inflation will take place. This would penalize many a loyal worker, but it would at least maintain incentives for every man to work hard in the knowledge that he could use his money to bid for such...
...schedules or else take four days off, the union at once objected. Moreover, the very strength of some unions has created a well-recognized twilight zone of authority within plants: the foreman seldom dares discharge a man; the union's "shop steward" is himself powerless to discipline a worker because his own job is dependent on his popularity...
...Germany the penalty for absenteeism is death. In England and Australia it has been necessary to impose stiff fines. In the U.S. both labor leaders and management are still loath to follow British example. Both hope that the U.S. worker will wake up to his responsibilities...
...first jobs after Vassar ('15) was as a policewoman in the tough Navy Yard section of Brooklyn. Tall, heavy and gusty, Charlotte Carr calls herself "a fat Irishwoman" and is a female counterpart of John L. Lewis-more a labor leader than a social worker. Last week she had been offered a job with the Rosenwald Fund (race relations...