Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic issue, reinstatement of strikers, the two sides are committed to irreconcilable positions. U.A.W. has to cling to reinstatement as a bedrock-minimum demand. Kohler Co. has vowed that no worker will be laid off to make room for an ex-striker. But even if the reinstatement issue could somehow be arbitrated, the essential clash of stubborn wills would still remain. Herbert Kohler wants to keep U.A.W. out of his company altogether; Walter Reuther has to get U.A.W. in or suffer a humiliating defeat. Wielding the only weapon he has left, Reuther apparently intends to keep up the boycott until...
...will be available for citizens this year. The rest will be shipped abroad to get precious foreign currency, or turned over to party members. Even at the official price tag of 27,000 kroner, a new car represents almost 100 weeks' wages for the average Czech worker. In the case of the Tatra, which the Czechs intend to produce again this year after a long interruption, the price will be 200,000 kroner-$28,000 at the official exchange rate...
...spite of such fiascos, stubborn Walter Ulbricht seems determined not to change his ways. Last week the Trade Union Federation, obediently toeing the Ulbricht line, announced a frenetic campaign to spur worker production and "to call to account trade union and economic functionaries in the event of nonfulfillment of obligations...
...Haas represents the fourth generation of Strausses to run the 108-year-old firm that has made "Levi's" a synonym for all blue jeans. Son of Board Chairman Walter A. Haas, he graduated from Harvard Business School ('39), started as a $100-a-month factory worker. ¶Stuart T. Saunders, 48, executive vice president of Norfolk & Western Railway Co., became president, succeeding retiring Robert H. Smith, 69. After graduating from Roanoke College ('30) and Harvard Law School ('34), Saunders practiced law in Washington, joined N. & W.'s legal department in 1939, moved...
...four-fifths will still come from taxes), the Chancellor set these new weekly rates: for employed men, 7? more, for a total of 26?; employed women, 5?more, total 19?; employed juveniles (under 18), 2? more, total 12?. In addition, employers' fees will go up from 4? per worker to 6?. For children not yet employed, the rate goes up 2? to a total...