Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Then, as suddenly as it started, the strike was over. The night the President spoke, the National Mediation Board called in the union chiefs, told them to "bring your pillows" for an all-night session. No settlement was reached then, but the men, except for a handful of bitterenders, went back to work, in the morning. They had heard the President of the U.S. say: "No matter how serious you believe your grievances are, nothing can excuse the fact that you are adding to your country's danger. I ask you, in the name of our country, to return...
Last week energetic Dr. Douglas Quick, consulting radiologist and cancer specialist at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital, had a triumph to announce for his hospital. The Belgian Union Minière du Haut Katanga, which controls most of the world's limited supply of radium, had promised the hospital a five-year loan of the biggest chunk of radium (50 grams-about 1/10 lb.)* ever amassed. Estimated value...
Ballet Director Tudor had a rejuvenated company to work with. He had kept 15 members of the Met's old company-some of them partly to satisfy the union. But he had 21 new dancers, picked more for their ability to "look and move well on the stage" than for their technique ("I can always teach them to dance"). For top polish, he had brought along Texas-born Ballerina Nana Gollner from Ballet Theatre...
...years. She wore a pineapple-patterned dress and a white carnation lei, and she was barefooted. Said she earnestly: "Business is a team of people. Some of the people are stockholders; some are employees . . . All do their part to make the business a success." Aloha-shirted Mitsuma Miyazaki, a union shop steward, cautioned: "Profits are not guaranteed . . . and so for future needs we have earmarked...
...stockholders, who were served ice-cold pineapple juice during the meeting, seemed delighted. They were even more pleased by the profit charts on display. In the latest fiscal year, Hawaiian Pineapple netted a tidy $5,400,000, almost $1,000,000 more than the year before. Although the union, dominated by Communist Harry Bridges, denounced the employee explanation plan as a "company union" scheme, the employees like it. Not since 1947 has Hawaiian Pineapple been struck by Harry Bridges' union. Said Miyazaki in San Francisco last week: "It's a good company to work...