Word: workers
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Geographic isolation, in part, helped protect both these mavericks from the Kremlin's wrath. Other rebellious East bloc nations were less fortunate. In 1953 the Soviet army moved into East Germany to crush a widening worker-led insurrection in support of political freedom and economic improvements. Three years later, there were popular uprisings against pro-Moscow regimes in both Poland and Hungary. The Kremlin let the Polish army put down the rioting Poznan workers, who were demanding "bread and freedom." But the Soviets sent their own troops into Budapest in a brutal suppression that left at least...
...pale cheeks almost submerged under a wide mustache, the profile dominated by a prominent nose and an outthrust jaw. Yet he radiates an unmistakable air of authority, along with an infectious good humor. Working a crowd, he displays the charisma of a natural leader. Said a Gdansk woman worker after hearing him speak last week: "He is the right man at the right tune. He was able to give us hope...
...unionizing mission has brought a few temporal rewards. He now draws a union salary of $333 a month -roughly equal to a shipyard worker's. He was able to trade his former two-room flat for a new six-room apartment in a suburban row of bristling concrete towers; his wardrobe has grown from one to five suits; friends keep him supplied with a seemingly endless stream of domestic and imported cigarettes. "You're going to get the way all the big bureaucrats get-mark my word," scolded a woman delegate at a recent union meeting. Walesa smiled...
...auto workers' union members are requested to accept a two-year freeze on all cost of living increases and a slight reduction in fringe benefits. This would mean that a Chrysler worker would earn $17.31 an hour in 1981, rather than $20.45, and $17.52 an hour in 1982, rather than $22.11. The concessions would be worth approximately $600 million to the company. Iacocca last week bluntly told the United Auto Workers, "It's freeze time, boys. Chrysler's got good jobs available at $17.30 an hour. We don't have them...
Most of his drawings are in the possession of the Rosenbach Foundation in Philadelphia; the few that come up for sale fetch prices of up to $12,000 each. For a man who describes himself as "a solitary and an agonizingly slow worker," Sendak has had an uncharacteristically gregarious year. He oversaw the printing of his new book, Outside Over There, to be published this spring, aided in the production of his off-Broadway musical Really Rosie, designed sets for the Houston Opera's version of The Magic Flute and is at work on the New York City Opera...