Word: union
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veldt. Three years ago a message came to Scott in Johannesburg from black friends on the veldt: in South West Africa, a former German colony mandated by the League of Nations to the Union of South Africa, the white men were plotting to defraud the black men of their heritage. It was the "sacred trust" of a mandatory power to prepare native peoples for self-government. Instead, the Union of South Africa was preparing to annex South West Africa and force its black men (300,000 v. 30,000 whites) into a degrading system of racial discrimination (TIME...
Civilization, white South African style, did everything it could to thwart Scott's mission. Though denied official standing, he managed to tell U.N. members of the black man's plight. Three times the General Assembly asked the Union of South Africa to place the onetime German colony under international control. Three times the Union refused. As of today, the Union government of Premier Daniel Malan has all but annexed South West Africa...
...often said that capitalism must assume "social responsibility." Actually t his party's attitude toward labor is still undefined. Many of West Germany's industrialists, who generally support Adenauer, do not like the innovations-profit-sharing plans, management-labor councils-which the military government introduced. Sighed one union leader last week: "Capitalists in the U.S. are so much more farsighted in their labor relations than our bosses...
...party is Ludwig Erhard, Minister of Economics, who in the past two years has helped guide West Germany back to a relatively free economy. Generally considered a man to watch is 48-year-old Karl Arnold, president of Bonn's Bundesrat (Upper House), a hard-hitting Catholic trade-union leader who frequently acts as spokesman for the workers in his native Ruhr. No friend of Adenauer's, whom he considers too conservative, Arnold may some day be his rival for party leadership...
...therefore be defended. Indeed it is in Germany that the defense of the West must begin, and that it might fatally end." To overcome Western Europe's inevitable resistance to arming Germany, military men have suggested that a Western German army be placed under the command of Western Union headquarters...