Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign got under way, labor punched doorbells, manned sound-trucks, flooded the country with campaign literature. In Chicago alone, labor mustered nearly 10,000 volunteer workers. Many a worker in Democratic headquarters had his salary paid by labor. On Election Day labor provided free babysitters, free taxi service and piled up Democratic pluralities...
...such as the requirements for union shop elections. Other sections, the ban on the closed shop, were interpreted by the labor unions as clearly anti-union. The authors of the Act, and the Republican party in the campaign, insisted that the Act was for the benefit of the individual worker; it would free him from the labor boss. It was this attempt to drive a wedge between the labor leader and the rank and-file which probably explains more than any other single factor the intensity of the reaction of labor leaders. The Taft-Hartley act was written...
Nevertheless Oleg Grabar '50, in this country only two months, contended that the election results really reflect the sentiment of the French worker. The "ouvrier" turning to the head of French wartime resistance has done so, he argues, feeling that Do Gaulle is "the only force who can expel the Communists from France...
Output per farm worker in the U.S. has been multiplied 2½ times in the past 50 years. In 1787 it took 19 American farm people to support one other person, in addition to feeding themselves. Nowadays 19 farm people can support themselves, 56 other Americans and ten persons in other countries...
...European Protestants spend too much time thinking about God and Scripture, not enough in helping their neighbor. ¶U.S. Protestants are inclined to be simple-minded do-gooders with a busy-bee, "social-worker" concept of religion that comes perilously close to the Pelagian heresy...