Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although exams were a week away and the bureau had almost closed down for the summer, the student and a co-worker from the Harvard Defenders spent six days tramping the part of Boston where the murder had occurred. Two days before their first exam, they turned up with...
...industries (TIME, July 29). Bevan, a longtime and passionate advocate of nationalization, sat impassively on the platform as old-line Socialists jeered Gaitskell from the floor. "Sheer capitalism," yelled a delegate. "I'd better take off me boots and put on me spats," said a quarry worker from the midlands. Asked old (72) Manny Shin well, grizzled orator from the smoky Clydeside: "Have I been fighting 54 years for Socialism for nothing?" Even Bevan's wife, tiny Jennie Lee, waved a copy of the new party plan at her husband and shrilled: "Take it back. Give...
...while not the major issue in the controversy, was nevertheless one irritant in the latest quarrel between the Vatican and the French Roman Catholic Church. Long suspicious of French "progressive Catholicism," the Vatican finally cracked down on a matter that seemed less dramatic than the ill-fated Red-tinged Worker Priest movement (TIME, May 13), but was perhaps even closer to rank and file French Catholics. The issue: a "progressive catechism." which replaced the old, stodgy National Catechism throughout France last year. The new catechism tries to teach the tenets of the Catholic faith not by rote but through simple...
...stone plates, new color-printing techniques-lead to more and more jobs for lithographers at higher and higher pay (now $125 to $200 for a 35-hour week). Convinced that unions ought to promote higher productivity, not resist it, Swayduck has fought the featherbedding that made many a printshop worker resemble, in Swayduck's words, "the guy in the orchestra who waits for two hours, then bangs the cymbals together once, then leans back again." Automation, Swayduck believes, is a boon to workers, not a menace. "If it helps get products to the consumer more cheaply," he says...
WARSAW, Poland, Oct. 4--Combined forces of Polish Red police, security troops and militia men from worker ranks fought down a new student uprising for freedom here tonight...