Word: workers
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...discouraging to find . . . that Reuther won from Ford and G.M. the "principle" of the guaranteed annual wage . . . The controlling word is "guaranteed." The auto workers under the new contracts are guaranteed nothing . . . The only "guarantee" is that the companies will pay 5? per hour per worker into a jobless benefit fund. The benefits to the workers vary with the amount of money in the fund. If either company went through two straight years of heavy layoffs, by the end of that time there would probably be no benefits at all. Is that "guaranteed"? . . . The fact is that Reuther...
...named by Burdett as the man who first tapped him for Soviet espionage. Einhorn, now a public-relations man for the Communist Polish embassy, blandly replied on the stand that he had merely suggested sending Burdett to Finland as an "objective" reporter for the Communist New Masses or Daily Worker. He refused, under the Fifth Amendment, to answer questions about past party membership...
...editorial [from the Richmond News Leader) sounds more like something out of the Daily Worker . . . It appears that instead of wasting our time trying to educate the peoples of Iron Curtain Europe we should begin at home behind our own Iron Curtain, sometimes known as the Mason-Dixon line...
Vassar & Vistas. A former social worker found that she is a painter; a college professor's widow took up the recorder; and a former Philadelphia schoolteacher 1) learned Speedwriting, 2) became an amateur naturalist, and 3) found she was pretty handy at woodworking. From early morning until cocktail time, in fact, the twelve scarcely had a moment's idleness. They took trips to the U.N., attended the experimental theater at nearby Vassar College, spent the evenings reading aloud from Lord Dunsany, Thornton Wilder and Edna St. Vincent Millay. One man's blood pressure dropped 30 points...
Having come prepared to argue that G.A.W. could not and must not be accepted by U.S. industry, N.A.M. speakers revised their speeches. Keynoter Robert E. Wilson, chairman of Standard of Indiana, called it "unthinkable" that a worker should be paid nearly as much "for not working as he is for working." On the other hand, he added, as a note of calm, "neither should we assume that any new burden would be intolerable." At week's end the N.A.M. took a firm stand against G.A.W. Said its board of directors: "Such plans will create inequities among employees . . . deplete state...