Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born 30-odd years ago in the Spanish town of Albacete. He married young, went to Madrid and studied to be a schoolteacher. Too poor to finish his courses, he became a construction worker, unionist, extreme leftist. In the Civil War, he fought on the Ebro, had a big chunk shot out of his back. He went to Mexico, worked for the Spanish Republican exiles. After World War II, he slipped back into Spain, became a key Communist organizer...
...under a three-month sentence for contempt of Congress), Screenwriters John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo (who were charged with contempt in the House Un-American Activities Committee hearing) and others, was suspending after a year of life. New Masses Editor Joseph North had already jumped aboard the Daily Worker (as staff writer). Most of his associates (e. g., Richard O. Boyer, New Yorker writer) had other ways of making a living. Executive Editor A. B. Magill and others from both staffs said they would launch a monthly magazine in March. So far, they had figured out a formula...
...Last week the Daily Worker, weary of double-talk about whether Fast was or wasn't, came right out and called him a Communist...
Before & after the wage increases, management argued that the U.S. was still getting no full dividend from full employment (60,000,000 jobs). Shortages tended to choke the full flow of production, and many a worker was so little worthy of his hire-and so little worried about losing his job-that productivity per worker was little if any better than in 1946. In short, 1947 could have been still better if everybody had worked harder and more efficiently...
...incentives continues. The last bit of fun has been exiled from their drab lives in this country of Virtue and Gloom, with its mean vindictive Work or Want posters on every street corner; a slogan fit for a state orphanage or reformatory school, and which makes every self-respecting worker's stomach turn in disgust. . . . Two more years of this, and Labor will have irretrievably wasted its historic chance...