Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the joy most Poles take in their religion, the country has been sliding down toward the doldrums, after the first few heady months following the October coup. The main trouble is economic; as one worker put it last week: "Gomulka kicked out the Russians and brought back the church. That is very good. Now I am waiting to see if we will eat better...
...dropped drastically, while the total work force has rapidly increased. Unions are also at fault. Some, still thinking in Depression terms, limit the number of apprentices they will accept for training. More important, the emphasis of industrial unions on raising the pay of the unskilled has discouraged workers from learning a trade, especially since apprentice wages are far less than unskilled pay. The skilled worker's pay advantage over the unskilled dropped from 80% in 1932 to about 40% in 1957. During the same period the social feeling against "blue-collar" work has increased. Says B. Gordon Funk, industrial...
Whole communities are getting into the act. In Bridgeport, Conn. 311 industrial plants are cooperating in studying present and future personnel needs, while at Waterville, Me., a town survey turned up worker shortages in 47 classifications, led to 600 adults enrolling in job-training courses conducted by Colby College and local schools...
...Roques of Rennes), the scene might have been one from the church's potent medieval past. But St. Louis IX of France (1215-70) would have been saddened by the three grim problems before the French hierarchy : 1) the growing shortage of priests, 2) the defiance of the Worker Priests, 3) the crisis of religious education...
OVERTIME PAY will be eliminated on aircraft defense contracts, except for ballistic missiles and high-priority jobs approved in advance by Air Force. Defense Department's order will cut costs (average aircraft-factory worker earns $10.84 weekly overtime) but aggravate engineer shortage, now so acute that until recently California planemakers kept engineers on steady overtime. BIGGEST SHOPPING CENTER in southeast U.S. will be built in Miami for $15 million by Alcoa Chairman Arthur Vining Davis, 89, and other investors. With more than 4,000 parking spaces and 60 chain stores, new Northside Center expects yearly sales of $45 million...