Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried to cut in on his small time, independent bootlegging operation. When the trial ended with a hung jury -ten for conviction and two against-Moses Jones wasted no time in removing himself from Clarke County. He moved to Bessemer, Ala., and got a job as a construction worker. Meanwhile, the U.S. attorney prepared to try Hill again...
...read your editorial, you are defending the Old Age and Survivors Insurance System as a social insurance system that provides benefits related to previous wages, payable to workers meeting the minimum eligibility requirements, and financed out of contributions of employers and workers. Mr. Campbell, following the United States Chamber of Commerce line, alleges this system is not "a bona fide insurance system" because each insured worker does not have an individual contract...
...shown, and why, as in what they did see. They admired the cleanliness of the people and the orderliness of the queues. But Gregory Kassimatis, onetime Labor Minister, a staunch Liberal, was appalled, after touring two Red showplace factories, by the lack of industrial safeguards to protect the workers. All were conscious of being tailed at all times by security agents. When one tourist asked to pop in on a worker's home, he was told: "The Russian home is a sanctuary, and to enter it would be a sacrilege." Helen Vlachou, editor-publisher of Greece...
Without Party. In Coventry, Electrical Worker Lucy Williams, who had also showed up for work on strike day, was given back the ten shillings that she had contributed to the factory Christmas-party fund, and was told that if she went to the party everybody else would leave. "I had a good cry over it," said Lucy. "Then I took the afternoon off and had my hair permed and that made me feel better...
Some good news for growers of citrus fruit, cotton and potatoes came from Dr. Robert Metcalf. a co-worker of March's at California's Riverside Experimental Station. He and fellow workers have developed two new double-barreled insecticides that attack pests from inside plants. Called Systox and OMPA, they are a by-product of German wartime efforts to produce a nerve gas. If sprayed only on a tree trunk, Systox and OMPA work their way inside so neatly that they protect leaves that grow after the spraying is done. They seem to leave little harmful residue...