Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mare received a small pension from the government and has never since needed to live in any world but his own-a country house in Buckinghamshire where his four children grew up, later an apartment in Twickenham...
John L.'s .miners were ready to begin their ten-day vacation; their present contract with the mine operators expired on July 1. Meanwhile the operators' spokesman, Ezra Van Horn, had filed suits which froze the miners' welfare and pension fund and prevented its distribution. If the contract were not signed, or the pension fund not unfrozen, John L.'s miners might not come back to work on July...
...last week John L. got a big break from Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who has twice slapped big fines on him. Judge Goldsborough dismissed the pension fund suits, adding that a $100-a-month pension for miners above 62 was "meager ... just enough to keep the miners from being objects of charity...
...credit to suggestions from the workers themselves, under the worker-management "joint plant committees" he set up with his unions. Luckman himself is behind such morale-boosting devices as meals at cost (average price 37?), liberalized vacations (up to three weeks for ten years' service), insurance and pension systems, abolition of time-clock-punching for salaried workers...
John Lewis lumbered into federal court this week to hear the verdict on whether or not he was in contempt of court. He had made a deal through Speaker Joe Martin which had settled, for the time at least, the 29-day coal strike and pension-fund fight which had brought about the strike. But he still had to answer to the law for waiting nine days before he obeyed a court order to send his miners back to work. His contention was that he had never sent them...