Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Wallace, for instance, declared that the murder was due to "British and American imperialism." Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker suggested that the crime had been committed by British agents provocateurs who had infiltrated the Stern gang and whose task was "plotting assassinations...
Ropes & Gallows. By noon factories and shops had closed, trains stopped running. With an eye to a good turnout, someone had mobilized government trucks to haul workers to downtown B.A. from the outlying industrial districts. Many a worker, by the time he reached the Plaza de Mayo, had also been equipped with a sign bearing a Peronista slogan. Others carried loops of rope, or miniature gallows-a meaningful reminder of the bitter speech at Santa Fé in which Perón talked of hanging his enemies (TIME, Sept...
Until recently, when it granted the union shop (to two A.F.L. unions), the company encouraged new workers to join, warned them that troublemakers who tried to undermine the union would be disciplined or fired. The union has reciprocated the trust, frequently advises management on promotions, often waives a worker's seniority right, if it feels a better man deserves...
...Crown Zellerbach's thin, scholarly vice president and industrial relations chief, consulting professor of industrial relations at Stanford University. In a recent book, Why Men Work (Stanford University Press; $2.75), the latest choice of the Executive Book Club, Heron explained the program's philosophy. Said Heron: U.S. workers no longer work primarily for food and shelter. "The most potent reason why we work at physical jobs ... is a spiritual force ... the urge in man to realize and express himself as a person." Management, said Heron, can best help the worker realize himself by believing "in the right...
...France's Jeannette Vermeersch, who started as a mill hand in Lille, lived for years with Maurice Thorez, eventually married him. She has the reputation of being a hard, intelligent party worker. Rank & filers like her for being a roughhewn, no-nonsense kind of a wife to Thorez (and to Communism), who can talk about the price of butter...