Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laudatory biographies of Polish Communist leaders executed by Stalin. Hungary's Communist Party Boss Rakosi, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht (who likened Stalin worship to the Führer cult) and Italy's Togliatti each made statements downgrading Stalin's position. In Manhattan Daily Worker Editor Alan Max asked himself aloud some surprisingly pertinent questions: "Many things bother a person like myself: Where were the present [Soviet] leaders during the period when they say that collective leadership was lacking? What about their own mistakes in that period?" At this sign of shilly-shallying, U.S. Communist Boss...
...that can no longer take care of them. Some are the sons and daughters of alcoholics and criminals ; others have been juvenile delinquents; all arrive lost and afraid. For these, Graham offers no elaborate psychiatric routine. Its whole approach is so straightforward and simple as to make a social worker despair. "The average kid who's had the rug pulled out from under him," says Director Allen Thomas, "is not sick. The experts have scared the wits out of laymen. The best way to treat a child, it seems to me, is to push here, guide there, play...
...ideal conditions at Bakersfield, Calif., Trinidad's Mike Agostini, a Fresno State College sophomore, ran a straightaway 220-yd dash in :20.1 to break the world's record (:20.2) set in 1949 by Southern California's Mel Patton. ¶| James Ray Jordan, 36, a California aircraft worker with a great desire to set a world record, achieved his heart's desire by tanking up on pure oxygen for two minutes, dropping to the bottom of a heated San Diego swimming pool and holding his breath for 8 min. 3½ sec. to crack the record...
...they were curious, especially concerning the standard of living in the West. Such questions as these were frequently asked Malia: "What is it like to live there?"; "Are your automobiles better than ours?"; "What does an average worker earn?"; "What can you buy with what the average worker gets?" Even taxi drivers were curious. Many asked about the traffic in the United States, and whether there was more of it than in Russia. Most of them, Malia says, knew there was more in America...
...panel had recommended a five-year contract stretching to October 1960. Included in the proposal were wage boosts that would have given each worker a minimum 25?-an-hour raise over the five-year period, plus increases in pension and insurance benefits. The proposal also contained a set of rules under which the company could make time studies of workers. All this was fine with the union, but Carey objected that the mediators' plan did not provide for arbitration on possible pay cuts for employees shifted from piecework to hourly pay; some, he said, stood to lose...