Word: workers
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...jobs became obsolete, it also led to a faster pace of work and greater physical danger for everyone else as businesses pushed for higher productivity. The principle of equal pay for equal work was troublesome on several counts. First, it required centralized wage negotiations which meant that the average worker had little opportunity or cause for involvement in union affairs. Secondly, it required that higher paid L.O. members (usually working in the more profitable industries) refrain from taking out as much as they otherwise could in the interest of solidarity with their poorer union comrades. This requirement gave managers...
...attack on bosses' power is well suited to the current needs of the L.O. and the Social Democrats. It provides a focus for worker unrest and serves to unite wage-earners in a common struggle, thereby drawing attention away from the wage policy, which could otherwise prove divisive. It also gives workers some control over technological development, ameliorating the effects of structural change. Finally, it tends to splinter the non-socialist opposition parties, with the Liberal and Center Parties often supporting many of the specific reforms (especially in matters of health and safety) with only the Conservatives consistently voting against...
...Meidner approach to economic democracy isn't nearly as attractive politically as the first. The average worker would not see many concrete results for years to come. The approach would probably frighten a good deal of capital out of the country. Its centralized character would frighten Liberals and Centrists, who are afraid of union domination. Moreover, it would eventually require a complete change in the relations between the national union federations and the union locals, with the federations enforcing national union policy over the opposition of various locals. With the common enemy gone, the battles over central versus local controls...
This time Poitier plays an Atlanta milkman named Clyde. Cosby is his best pal, a factory worker called Billy. With their wives, they take a weekend's jaunt to New Orleans, where they hope to raise money for the Sons and Daughters of Shaka, their ailing lodge back home. Their scheme does not promise success - or an especially funny movie: they hypnotize an emaciated, canvas-backed middleweight contender named Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker) to give him inner and outer strength. Then they put their money on the unlikely pug to beat a nasty pro named 40th Street Black...
Hall's remaking of the Klan reached its peak in 1915 when he founded a secret left-terrorist organization called the Clan of Toil, clearly modeled in its air of mystery and vigilante spirit on the Klan but dedicated to "bettering immediately the economic condition of the Southern Worker" and "making USE and OCCUPANCY the only title to land." Hall saw in the ills of the South in 1915--tenant farming, poverty, exploitative land and factory owners--a great many similarities to Reconstruction, when his father's generation had complained of the same things, but Hall blamed them...