Word: workers
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Clothing is adequate, but nothing more. The houses are very simply furnished, with one stove supplying heat and providing space for cooking. The Russian peasant probably has a better diet than the urban worker. Each member of a collective farm has a small plot ranging in size from 0.6 to 1.5 acres. More than half the milk, fruits and vegetables of the Soviet Union is produced on these small plots...
July take-home pay for a factory worker with three dependents averaged $69.84 a week, up almost 6% from last year; for the seventh month in a row U.S. factories hired more workers than they separated. In August new claims for unemployment benefits dropped to 173,300, the lowest level in two years. Though farm income -the economy's soft spot-dipped 4% below last year for the first seven months, receipts for July took the normal seasonal gain over June, rose 10%, to $2.1 billion. "Most farmers," said Under Secretary True D. Morse, "are keeping financially sound...
...punch-press operator, another was a truck driver; the rest were Regular soldiers, a warehouseman, a baker, a gas worker, a mechanic, three unemployed civilians and a student. They wore sports shirts mostly, open at the neck with the sleeves rolled up, and they had come to Governors Island in New York Harbor from distant places-Denver and Detroit, Cottonwood, Ala., and Hanging Rock, Ohio -for a long-awaited Army reunion. Center of the reunion: a clean-looking young Regular Army sergeant who smiled winningly beneath a mop of golden hair...
Under the new contract, G.E. will give workers a 3% wage increase every year for five years, tack on an additional 1? per hour during the last two years, to boost the hourly average to $2.27 by 1960. Beyond that, the company agreed to a cost-of-living formula Bunder which workers will get more pay if living costs go up, but take no cut if prices go down. It agreed to a new life-insurance plan equal to twice the amount of each worker's annual pay, and to three days' leave with pay in case...
...least half a dozen recent requests for visas have not been acted upon. Last week Pravda slipped into its familiar theme song that the "common people" of the West want peace, but their wishes are often frustrated by the "ruling circles." And London's Communist Daily Worker made a shocking revelation: "Children on farms in the U.S. customarily work very hard, and some boys and girls of 12 and 13 get up at 4 a.m. to do the milking before going to school...