Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daily Worker subscribers could not be tabulated, since the Communist mouthpiece is distributed by mail...
Beans & Whiskers. M. Schuman said he wanted a showdown; that he would push for "unconditional capitulation." The Cocos were already cringing. They asked a 1,500-franc payment for each striking worker to tide him over the Dec. 1 payday. Schuman refused...
...Just Thinking." One day last week, in the early afternoon sun, Giuseppe stood staring at his steam roller. "Well, Giuseppe, what are you doing there?" asked a worker, one Tomaso Sonnino. "Nothing. Just thinking," said Giuseppe. "Wondering what would happen if nobody could stop this thing. This one and all the others, just rolling on forever...
...dailies gave their all (four to eight pages) to the story. The U.S. press gave more space (having more to give) but less than its all. The New York Times ran the story for 23 columns. The Moscow press, of course, printed not a word. London's Daily Worker gave the story a scant twelve lines on Page One; its New York cousin sneered in big black type: 18 COUPLES WED-QUIETLY AT CITY HALL...
Collective bargaining, for instance, makes great demands on leadership, because it is "formidably complex ... a wound-up coil of dynamic forces, reaching from the individual worker and manager to the broadest-based social developments and back again...