Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good enough for Marx and Lenin, it's good enough for Brooklyn's Communist Councilman Peter V. Cacchione. Wrote Comrade Cacchione in the New York Worker: "It is certainly urgent to build up from childhood the ideological defenses to the penetration of fascist or neo-fascist divisive cannibal racist ideas...
Cavendish-Bentinck went right on seeing Poles of all shades, of opinion. The London Daily Worker opened the attack on another front, "discovering" that Cavendish-Bentinck had been separated from his American wife for seven years. He had filed suit for divorce in 1945; his wife filed a countersuit shortly after. The contents of neither complaint have ever been made public in Britain. A Warsaw paper, Express Wieczorny, took up the Daily Worker's cry under a headline: "One Wife and Five Mistresses," asserting that Cavendish-Bentinck had "five women, each in a different country." Next, the Polish Government...
...employe should not be entitled to . . . trifling periods of preliminary activity. . . . If portal-to-portal compensation is granted, then the employer will be entitled to keep track of and deduct short periods spent in personal pursuits." Asked Judge Picard: "You think we might do an ultimate injustice to the worker by granting portal-to-portal compensation?" Answered Sonnett: "Yes. . . . On the facts of this case the play is not worth the candle...
...deliberate selfishness that results in the unreasonable attempts of business to squeeze the consumer in a time of prosperity. The businessman, like the worker, knows that we live in a pendulum economy, where the inevitability of the next depression is as sure as the swing of the brass rod in the grandfather's clock. The businessman's defense is to make money in the sunshine, enough at least to oil his idle machinery in the dead days at the bottom of the cycle. The result is the increasing trend toward consolidation and away from the dispersion of ownership that, theoretically...
...continue to do what the Wagner Act says they will do--contribute to the developing maturity of collective bargaining. They will serve as a check to the growing concentration of business ownership, and above all they will add to the democratic quality of industrial life through the injection of worker participation...