Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...landau at the door, the servants in the attic." At lunch there were long silences between toasts, broken at last by Attlee, who abruptly asked: "How do you get your milk in Moscow?" The Russians told them, in a laborious hum of translation, broken by the clear, social-worker voice of Dr. Edith: "I'm not interested in yield. What about safety? Are all your supplies pasteurized...
Seven British journalists (among them correspondents of the London Times and the Daily Worker) had been invited also, but long before they reached China, Morgan Phillips firmly put the press in its place. He forbade any Laborite to talk to the journalists. "We are not going to have you people breathing down our necks and have to be on our guard about what we say for 24 hours a day," said Phillips. Everywhere the group went, the Chinese were forced to double all arrangements-a plane for the delegation and a plane for the press. Reporters were shut...
...them in a secret rendezvous in the Forbidden City. Over fragrant tea and flanked by Chou and the party's chief theoretician, Liu Shao-chi, Mao-asked solicitously if they were tired from their rounds, and Franklin admitted that all of them together would not make one "Model Worker." But Mao was in a serious mood. ("He would make an outstanding labor negotiator," said Earn-shaw.) Blandly, he laid on the line his terms for coexistence. He wanted Attlee to ask the U.S. to 1) withdraw the U.S. Seventh Fleet and abandon its support of Chiang; 2) cease arming...
...Take a Dime. In general, the pattern for wage settlements was set by the steelmakers. The steelworkers asked for a package totaling some 50? an hour a worker (TIME. May 31), settled for 9? to 12? (including 5? in wages). Last week smaller steel fabricators were settling along the same lines with the union, and in some hardship cases were even getting concessions in their contracts. In Pittsburgh a number of building-trades unions signed new contracts this summer with no raise at all. The C.I.O. United Rubber Workers went after a reported 12? raise this year. They settled with...
...radical annual-wage plan to help his employees ride out seasonal employment fluctuations, later expanded benefit programs to include joint-earnings systems and a profit-sharing trust, took unceasing pride in his claim that no Hormel executive ever lived more than a block away from a Hormel C.I.O. worker...