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...does he think he is telling U.S. Steel, or any other business for that matter, when they should and should not raise prices? I am a workingman, but am very much in favor of free businesses of all sizes...
Solace in Teen-Agers. Per&243;n turned Congressmen into quivering yes men, crushed the judiciary, seized the press, took over universities, tortured political prisoners. But only rarely did he touch the workingman or his union...
Fifteen busloads of Episcopalians-bishops, priests and laymen-took a morning off from the General Convention to tool through industrial Detroit for a look at "the 20th century workingman." Trailing through the pounding, whirring world of the assembly lines, the men and women from greystone, Gothic city churches and suburban spires stared at the men who are making the '62 models. The auto workers stared back...
Desperate Move. He generally goes around in a tieless flannel shirt, stovepipe trousers that somehow bag at the knees, a moldy, fur-lined leather coat ("I shot it myself"), and a workingman's cloth cap. But he wears a suit and tie to restaurants, so that he will not "have to perform as a rebel, put my feet on the table or something that would interfere with my eating." He simply fears "claustrophobia of the soul" (which may have helped cause him to separate from his wife, Actress Jane Wenham), thinks that too many British actors are preoccupied with...
Goldberg might very well bring Government into labor disputes more quickly than did his predecessor and close friend, Secretary James Mitchell. But Goldberg claims to have no illusions about the divine rights of the workingman. "What is obviously called for," he told the National Association of Manufacturers last fortnight, "is a greater recognition between management and labor in America of mutuality of interests." In practice, however, Goldberg's interests have been plainly on the side of strengthening big labor...