Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Numerous people had numerous explanations, aside from the Wagner Act, for this staggering and sometimes frightening phenomenon. One of the reasons was the increase in employment. But the House was certain that it had put its disciplinary finger on the basic reason. The reason was not the U.S. worker-"deprived," as the labor committee said, "of his dignity as an individual . . . cajoled, coerced, intimidated and on many occasions beaten up. . . . The employer's plight has likewise not been happy." The committee blamed the unions, which the Wagner Act had made into a "tyranny more despotic than one could think...
...where they don't care for machines anyway, the Socialist Arbeiterzeitung declared: "His creation, the production line . . . reminds us of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, which showed the ridiculous and tragic power of Fordismus over man. . . . Thus Ford was not a friend but an enemy of the worker...
Arthur B. Lamb, editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, has been giving Chemistry A for years, and Louis P. Fieser, author and prominent research worker in organic chemistry, is slated to handle Chemistry 2, elementary organic chemistry, next fall. Top man in the field, however, is George B. Kistiakowsky, chairman of the department, whose name few concentrators even learn to pronounce by their senior year...
...average worker makes about 300 rubles a month (the price of 2 lbs. of smoked sausage). However, the new overlords, i.e., Russian officials, technicians, "Heroes of the Soviet Union," local Communist big shots, get special privileges. They are known as "limit people" (those who receive the top category of limitnaya kartochka, i.e., ration card). Their ration includes 16 lbs. of meat a month, they are assigned special restaurants, special baths (much of the plumbing is dilapidated), special shows and concerts. A current bitter crack in Riga: "All they are waiting for now is special brothels...
...eventual goal of industrial harmony cannot be attained by a series of step gap measures. In many cases the issue is as much sociological as economic. Workers grow dissatisfied with their jobs because the worker has become just another handle on a machine. No legislative flat can create a system in which each worker feels that he is making a contribution to society and that he is a necessary part of the nation's life. Only through a lengthy process of trial and error methods, worked out by labor and management leaders in each plant or industry, will on acceptable...