Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things has put into his hands. And build them we shall." Look to the Mind. "As for the social and political problems that will accompany this development, their outlines can be foreseen but dimly . . . The normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase. How is the increase in leisure time and the extension in life expectancy to be spent? Will it be for the achievement of man's better aspirations or his degradation to the level of a well-fed, well-kept slave of an all-powerful state? "Indeed, merely to state...
...Congressional committee. The Court's ruling in these cases, announced late last month, contained a generally broad intrepretation of the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination and may be relevant to the Singer case as well. In the majority opinion setting aside the contempt conviction of United Electrical Workers' official Julius Emspak, Chief Justice Warren wrote that the Fifth Amendment should be "accorded liberal construction in favor of the right it was intended to secure..." Warren upheld Emspak's refusal to testify about certain associates, all previously charged with Communist affiliations, on the grounds that his answers might "have furnished...
...place of G.A.W., the Ford company made three new proposals designed to increase the security of workers: 1) a stock purchase plan, 2) an "income stabilization plan," and 3) severance pay. Both the stock and severance-pay plans were completely new to the auto industry. In the stock and savings plan, a worker could invest up to 10% of his salary. Half of this would be used to buy Government bonds for the employee; the other half would be used to purchase stock in the Ford company when it is issued-probably later this year. For every employee...
Under the income stabilization plan, a laid-off worker could draw interest-free advances that would give him about 25% of his regular wages (plus unemployment compensation). When reemployed, he would pay back the advances in install ments. Workers laid off permanently would get a week's wages in severance pay for every year of service...
...lower labor costs, while presently inequitable when compared to other industry in the area, are a necessity. Management's demand for a wage cut, on the other hand, must carry with it the responsibility on its part to reinvest profits in new machinery that will reduce costs, raise a worker's productivity, and, thereupon, enable wages again to rise. Charles C. Townsend...