Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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L.D.S. Indian Social Worker...
Steelworkers and their wives, Lubell found, have sharply noted that price increases follow close behind wage increases. "Everything else goes up and you're no better off," said one worker. "Wage increases are as useless as fuzz on a frog," said another. Instead of higher wages, says Lubell, many steelworkers would prefer "additional fringe benefits, such as expanded hospitalization, paid-up insurance, and-the one demand with the strongest support-a lower retirement age with more generous pensions...
...Factory pay set a new record in March, jumping to $79.68 after taxes for the average weekly pay of a worker with three dependents, 49? higher than in February, and 8? above the previous record set in December...
...Government, administrator or diplomat 35 41 Lawyer 75 109 Business Executive 212 253 Contractor 12 7 Own Store 34 34 Business for self, not store 70 45 Insurance, Real Estate 20 14 Salesman (employee) 60 37 Skilled technician 30 20 Foreman, factory supervisor 18 13 Clerical Office worker 65 53 Laborer, factory hand 57 40 Public worker 10 10 Farmer 11 19 Housekeeper, Housewife 19 14 Unemployed 8 1 Retired 7 21 Miscellaneous 2 1 None listed 27 25 Total 1116 1128 Note shift in admissions toward sons of parents in "professions...
...room, that nothing so luxurious could possibly be "typical" or, for that matter, be bought for a mere $13,000. Then Tass's editors showed what they really thought of the splitnik: "There is no more truth in showing this as the typical home of the American worker than, say, in showing the Taj Mahal as the typical home of a Bombay textile worker or Buckingham Palace as the typical home of the English miner." Furthermore, added Tass, with its mind on what such furniture might cost in Moscow's GUM-if it were ever available there-Macy...