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...year-old spy had been one of eight children, whose invalid father had to scrape along on a pension of $10 a month. He had quit school at eleven and gone to work on a farm. At 18, he joined the navy. A year later, just as openly, he joined Stockholm's Communist Youth Movement. Neither Ernest nor official Sweden apparently saw anything contradictory in the two affiliations. But Ernest Andersson was too good an opportunity to be missed for long by the Russians...
...left-but another Federal housing project can clean up the worst. Most of the fights in labor have simmered down to arguments around the bargaining table. Would-be heroes find themselves padded from har-and hope-like lunatics in a cell. In business, the tax structure, social security and pension plans promise to soften the blow of depression or personal misfortune-and forbid the building of new empires. In science there is the great corporation (or the Government) glad to furnish the expensive machinery now necessary for the smallest advance-and to give its name, or that of its group...
...prime source of labor-management conflict. Last year he got the University of Chicago's Industrial Relations Center to make some questionnaire tests which verified his suspicions: of 650 foremen tested, 45 believed that $100 million is a billion, 26% believed that everyone gets the same Social Security pension when he reaches 65, 39% thought that "capital is not productive," 23½% believed that companies try to "hide profits" by boosting depreciation charges...
VETERANS The Grab In the Senate last week, no Senator rose to defend the President's veto of the disabled veterans' pension bill. The special handiwork of Mississippi's John Rankin and the powerful veterans' lobby, the bill gives $120 each month to crippled ex-G.I.s whose disabilities are in no way connected with their military service (TIME, Aug. 27). The House had already overridden the veto by an overwhelming margin. The Senate promptly followed suit...
Topics of study include: History of the American Labor Movement, Problems in Labor Relations, Economic Analysis, Trade Union Problems in a Mobilized Economy, the Union Representative and Government Agencies, Arbitration. Pension Plans, Job Evaluation and Wage Incentives, Negotiation and Administration of Agreements, and Collective Bargaining...