Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early to Rise. Benson has taken command of his vastly complex task with the calm assurance of an able administrator, the energy and prayerful devotion of a Mormon missionary. A committee worker who believes, like every good Mormon, in cooperative endeavor, he has already streamlined the huge Agriculture Department so that only four men, instead of 20, report directly to him. Up at 5 and usually in his spacious, paneled office by 7:30 or 8, Benson starts most working days with a round of handshakes; he has met about one-third of the 8,000 Agriculture employees who work...
...wines and woolens to 50% on fruits and vegetables; theoretically, they will lower the sky-high Soviet cost of living by 8%. But previous price cuts have been largely offset by increases in taxes and by taxpayers' "loans" to the government. The latest markdowns leave the average Russian worker laboring more than a week for a cheap pair of shoes, 18 weeks for a top-quality suit-when he can find them in the stores...
...Russia that the editors had read in many a day. Moscow's "amazingly beautiful" subway, said one wide-eyed U.P. story, combines unmatched "public service, beauty and cultural design." There, were stories about Moscow's "well-dressed" crowds and "kids skipping rope." Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker thought the stories fitted the party line so well that it ran them without doctoring a sentence...
...revival, the groundwork is being laid for one. "Evangelical academies" for acquainting clergy and laymen with each other's problems have sprung up in most of the German provincial churches. Following Dibelius' advice of long ago, Protestants are making a strong effort to bring religion to German workers. Using an idea borrowed from the "worker priests" of Catholic France, pastors now spend some time in fields and factories, trying to come to grips with their people's problems...
Actually, Reuther was far behind many farsighted U.S. companies, which long ago established annual-wage plans without any prodding. As long ago as 1946, the Department of Labor counted 196 companies with plans for guaranteeing minimum employment or pay to their workers. One of the most successful of such plans is that of meat-packing George A. Hormel Co. of Austin, Minn. Started experimentally in 1931, it now covers some 8,000 employees. Milwaukee's Nunn-Bush Shoe Co. began its famed "Share-the-Production" flexible annual-wage plan in 1935, has continued it, with slight modifications, ever since...