Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker was also forced to eat an expensive diet of crow last week. Four years ago, in its attempt to take over the defense of Negro Rapist Willie McGee and use the case for party propaganda (TIME, May 14, 1951) the Worker printed an "exclusive." It charged that Mrs. Willette Hawkins, the Laurel (Miss.) housewife who accused McGee, had actually "forced an illicit affair on him for more than four years and suddenly shouted rape after the whole town discovered the story." Mrs. Hawkins sued the Worker for $1,000,000. Last week she settled...
After Hitler. As a sculptor, Fritz Wotruba would have long since become a world figure if it had not been for Hitler and World War II. The son of a poor Czech tailor, Wotruba was put to work at 14 as a metal worker, took art lessons at night. Although he was 18 before he finally became a sculpture student, by 23 he had sold a major work, Monumental Giant, to the city of Vienna. But what was the beginning of a brilliant career was cut short by the arrival of Hitler, and the Nazi campaign against what they called...
...union estimated that its G.A.W. plan would cost the companies 8? an hour per worker; at the end of five years, General Motors' fund would total about $350 million, while Ford's would reach $130 million. But, argued the union, the net cost to the companies would be much less, because the money going into the funds would be tax-free and not subject to the current 52% corporation tax. Thus, according to the U.A.W., the actual net cost for five years would be only "about $175 million for G.M., and about $60 million for Ford...
G.A.W. is not the only thing the union wants. In the last five years, 6? an hour has been added to each worker's pay in cost-of-living raises. The union wants this added to regular base pay so that it will not be lost if the cost of living declines. It also wants the hourly wage boost based on improved productivity, plus increased pension payments and other benefits. The combined cost of all this, said the union, would be much less than it had won in some previous bargaining sessions, such as 1946. when...
...then went to the Yale Law School (class of '31). He joined the Manhattan law firm of White & Case, lawyers for Big Steel, and was its associate counsel during the investigation of the steel industry by the Temporary National Economic Committee shortly before World War II. A methodical worker with a quiet wit and a knack for getting along with people, Blough became U.S. Steel's general solicitor in 1942, and executive vice president four years...