Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...output of goods and services. The cost-of-living index nudged up three-tenths of 1% last month, to the highest level in a year, but this was only six-tenths of 1% above last January, and three-tenths of 1% below January of 1954. Meanwhile the factory worker's weekly after-tax pay reached a record average in September-$71.55 take-home pay for a married man with two children, $1.25 more than the month before, nearly $5 more than in September 1954. Last week's figures included one serious cause for worry. Between the second...
...harassed, cramped and bothered existence is that of the western half of Berlin, encircled outpost of freedom. One in three of its 2,200,000 inhabitants works on some kind of government relief. "We plant flowers, instead of constructing buildings as they do in West Germany," said a relief worker last week. All roads into West Berlin are blocked except two strictly controlled highways, and the city is ringed by the rifled steel of East German Volkspolizei and divisions of the Red army. Each day precisely 13 freight trains, 17 barges and 500 automobile trucks loaded with food, fuel...
...relatives come over to this side, they have a gloomy story to tell. We try to cheer them up, but when they return to East Berlin, they take away a little of our optimism. Some day our spirits will be as low as theirs." Said a West Berlin worker: "The only thing that can save us is reunification...
...Notre Dame to the American Federation of Labor's President George Meany in Washington, D.C. "The Church believes that unions are desirable and necessary," said Washington's Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle in conferring the medal, "not only for the protection and advancement of the worker's interest, but even more important, for the development of a sound social order...
Siegfried predicted that the next step in this "dehumanization of society" would be the replacement of the white collar administrative worker by electronic machines. At the same time the machine will take over the process of production, depriving the unskilled and semi-skilled worker...