Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington last week, pickets with signs-"Commute the death sentences of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg"-kept up a 24-hr.-a-day demonstration near the White House. In New York the Daily Worker filled its pages with shrill protests that "the Rosenbergs must live." Throughout Europe, Communists and fellow travelers pointed to the Rosenbergs as martyrs to "reactionary hysteria...
Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker has been so hard pressed for money that early last month it presented its readers with an ultimatum: unless subscribers came across with a full $50,000 in contributions, the paper would have to fold (TIME, Dec. 15). This week the Worker triumphantly announced that it had reached its goal. Where the Worker got the money was still a mystery. Even by its own bookkeeping, the donations had run as low as $3,600 a week, instead of the $6,000 a week the paper said it ".must receive" to reach $50,000. Furthermore...
...fought unionization, came to see that un ions themselves could help boost productivity, and that good morale among work ers could release great untapped energies. This new philosophy reached its most dramatic fruition in a revolutionary contract which General Motors' President Charlie Wilson made with the United Auto Workers; it recognized that the worker was entitled to an automatic annual increase as his fair share of the enterprise's gain in productivity. The more the worker shared in productive gains, the more goods business sold...
...majority of citizens have big ger actual incomes than ever, despite the depreciated dollar. The average worker can now buy a Ford with only 925 hours of labor v. 998 hours in 1932 - even though the cost of the greatly improved car has risen from $445 to $1,526. He can buy a $10,000 home for 6,024 hours of labor v. 14,320 hours for an equivalent...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, yesterday rebutted charges made by Senator Pat McCarran (D-Nevada) that Mather had used "catch phrases" stolen from the Communist "Daily Worker" in a recent St. Louis speech...