Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course if this concept is carried to its extreme limits it would lead to the restoration of bargaining between the individual worker and the individual company--an end that would probably be quite acceptable to the men who are currently bewailing the helplessness of browbeaten business. The attitude of the unreformed sector of management was indicated last week in Chicago where a speaker before the American Management Association proclaimed the dissatisfaction resulting from high and rising prices, labor disputes, and "the fat dividend melons being cut by many of the country's large corporations" should be countered not by lower...
...morals of the closed shop, unionists argued that every worker should be required to contribute to a union which presumably worked in his behalf...
...locomotives lay helplessly. Their crews, except for one engineman, were dead. Around them, like spilled matchsticks, were the baggage car (six dead) and the twisted Pullmans. In one, a rabbi whose legs were pinned under shapeless rubble murmured prayers for the injured and dying. Near him, a Red Cross worker chattered and sang to a blur of protruding arms and legs and bloodstained pillows while she tried to free her hand from a crushing weight. In another mess of metal, a soldier whose uncle lay dead near his feet quietly sipped water while he waited for rescuers...
Again, the Labor Government, which is powerless against the unions whence spring its votes, failed to implement its pleas for greater production with hard measures to achieve them. The White Paper inveighed against "restrictive practices" by both labor and capital. It urged more output per worker. But the truth was that the British worker was not working very hard, and neither the British capitalist nor the Government was taking measures likely to supply either the incentive or the compulsion for greater effort. Nearly all British industries, for example, still worked only one shift, because workers were reluctant to change their...
...Moscow under the deep snow and deeper temperatures of midwinter, a setting that Blunden etches in many black-&-white details. The crowded misery of the people, their toughness, the splendor of the theater, which Ferguson calls "the opium of the people," a wide scale of Moscow types from factory worker to Red Army marshal, are rendered with fidelity and perception. The book's unifying theme is fear-the fear in which all these people live...