Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is the crux of the matter. Already a very active contributor to the "noncontributory" coal miners' pension fund, and with prospects of shortly assuming similar paternalism in behalf of the steel worker I don't see how I can conscientiously fail to do as well by the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker...
...carried to its ridiculous conclusion, one visions a society in which each worker subsidizes the security of every other the individual meanwhile laboring blissfully under the delusion that this is social progress and it's all for free...
Most West Berliners today "trade with the enemy." They turn in their hard West marks at six to one for soft Soviet marks, then buy in East Berlin. A gaunt worker, castigating the Reds, growled about "die Schweine" (the pigs), but he had just got a haircut in the Soviet sector. "Berliners value freedom," a German paper editorialized, "but they can do little with it. They have only the hungry freedom of the unemployed...
...Alternative. Except in some special cases, a worker lost all his credit in the company-financed pension fund unless he stayed with the company until he was 65 (or 60, if he had 30 years' service). If he quit his job before that (e.g., after 20 years' service), he was left with nothing but his Social Security...
...speech by New York's Republican Senator John Foster Dulles in his campaign for election was reported last week in routine fashion on inside pages by most New York papers. But not in the Communist Daily Worker. On Page One the Worker blared the scare headline...