Word: workers
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Another Briton, Captain Gerald Selby Lewis Griffiths, 43, was court-martialed in a wooden hut in the heart of the Mau Mau badlands. He was accused of murdering a captured Negro forest worker suspected of belonging to Mau Mau, and of ordering his African rifleman to "shoot anyone you want, so long as he is black." Griffiths told the court that he kept a Scoreboard in his officers' mess, recording the number of Mau Mau kills and captures. His company was aiming to raise its total to 50 kills, and to encourage his men he offered them a five...
...Sicilian packinghouse worker, Giorgio La Pira, 49, worked his way through law school, moved to Florence 29 years ago. He was an Under Secretary of Labor in Alcide de Gasperi's Cabinet, but left because he could not promote enough backing for his full-employment ideas (he wanted jobs-made work if necessary-for all of Italy's 2,000,000 unemployed). He believes everyone is entitled to "a job, a house, and music." As Demo-Christian candidate for Florence's mayoralty two years ago, he blasted the Communists loose from a five-year grip...
...Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro came upon a rarely heartening scene. In the piazza of Casaglia, a town near Bologna, a young Franciscan friar was haranguing a sizable crowd through a public-address system. The message he had for his workingman audience: Communism will fail because it betrays the worker...
...shops there is meat for all. But taxes are still so high as to discourage initiative, and Britain's economy is still essentially planned and subsidized. And its cost of living has gone steadily up. There is a new form of rationing for the average British worker, who earns less than $30 a week: low-paid Britons call it "rationing by purse." Sir Winston has just proposed that landlords be allowed to raise their rents if they repair their property. How would the voters take all this...
This wage difference is a bit puzzling to the freshman worker. If he inquires at Lehman Hall, Dining hall officials speak of the old days when students were allowed to leave work before the final clean-up. For this privilege, they were docked in pay and lost a free meal. Though this concession to study has long since disappeared, the inequity lingers on. And the officials justify their inaction with worthy sentiments about not wishing a cut in the wages of town boys. The College workers, of course, do not advocate such a cut, either. Ninety-four cents an hour...