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...Senators Robert Alphonso Taft and Joseph Hurst Ball had sound advice to give labor's annual social and economic conference at Camp Tamiment. Its essence: let organized labor recognize that the will of the majority of U.S. citizens is for legislation to improve the pattern of labor relations; therefore let organized labor itself help write its ticket, bring forth its own program, help in drafting acceptable measures...
...there was little indication that the Government planned to make any such increase in the national pattern, as the U.S. had done with18½?. Rather than add to inflation by raising wages and then prices, as the U.S. had done, Canada still seemed to prefer to hold the line everywhere. There was but one significant concession: Labor Minister Humphrey ("Hump") Mitchell said that henceforth "just and reasonable" wage increases would be approved...
...free enterprise. The Cleggs of the cotton industry and vigorous leaders in young industries like aircraft, plastics, and rayon textiles, might salvage a sizable chunk of the industrial process for free enterprise as it is known in the U.S. But in the planning for cotton, Britons could see the pattern for the British version of "free" enterprise, with the state as efficiency expert as well as overall planner...
...soft coal strike ended, the hard coal strike began. As usual, there were no picket lines; the strikers loafed, gardened, or drank up available beer in taverns. Would the whole pattern be repeated again? There was one consolation. The soft coal strike was the big strike. The hard coal strike was the little...
Remember Bratislava. Slovakia's deviation from the national pattern was the first concern of the Communists and their veteran boss, Vice Premier Klement Gottwald (who was a good bet to be Czechoslovakia's next Premier). Pipe-puffing Comrade Gottwald started out by fighting Russia as an Austro-Hungarian sergeant major in World War I, has been fighting for Communism ever since. Like Yugoslavia's Tito he is a former metalworker, and like France's Thorez he sat out the war in Moscow. Like both, he knows how to deal with overly independent elements...