Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bigger than the labor problem. These men who still regard labor organizations as something alien and threatening in our society are fanning fires that will some day get out of control. They are attempting to cripple the organizations that not only serve to give back to the minimized industrial worker his dignity and human assertiveness, but act as a balance wheel to the growing tendency of American business to concentrate. It is not that this movement toward bigger business is in the nature of a deliberate scheme to control the economy. It is inherent in the nature of an essentially...
...nation's welfare, we have become a tattered and torn group. We are now bewildered and confused by the lies and tactics thrown at us by people who would not admit they were Communists but who at every turn of the road hewed to the Daily Worker line." The A.V.C. was now stopped near the 80,000 mark in its drive for a million members, he said. Actually, it was still gaining 1,200 members a week...
...Aviv, underground terrorists, from a nearby rooftop, machine-gunned and grenaded Citrus House, British Military Headquarters. Casualties: one British soldier, one Arab, one Jewish girl canteen worker, and a Jewish passerby, all injured...
...development in this new branch of science that promises a revolution in the methods and accomplishment of every division of knowledge that deals with finite quantitative problems, from economic statistics to astronomy. Representatives of a dozen departments in the University are casting a longing eye toward this wonder worker in hope that they will soon be able to get quick, effortless answers to problems which heretofore have taken prohibitive amounts of time and energy...
Previous rulings of the court in 1944 and 1945, which had applied to "portal-to-portal" pay for miners alone, were now applied to workers in all industries. For all the time spent on company property-except for insignificant amounts-a worker must be paid...