A LOW LEVEL LOOK AT CANADA'S HIGH FLYER Children in Toronto recently got a chance to make a close inspection of Canada’s only space satellite, the Alouette, when a model of it went on display at the Alpha Aracon plant. That CoRfEE break is here to stay By NANCY LEISERSON ‘2 I can’t take my coffee break, something within me dies.” This line, from the Broadway hit “How To Succeed in Busi- ness Without Really Trying,” ex- emplifies the feeling of millions of American workers that their coffee break is second in impor- tance only to . . . well, their jobs. H. H. Knibbs elaborated upon this idea when he said, “After the coffee things ain’t so bad.” TRAVE! contact: a} 89 Fe | < ep dhe aot eee VISIT MOSCOW KIEV LENINGRAD and other cities in the Soviet Union Special Ist Class Rates Only $15.00 Per Day GLOBE TOURS 615 SELKIRK AVE. - WINNIPEG, MANITOBA - JU. 6-1886 § FREE: travel bag with every overseas air ticket. SIS Se a ee ee a ee es ae) « eh ok Sale. We ee oh Over the past few decades the custom of the coffee break has increased in popularity and de- -mand. More and more American workers have come to feel that the coffee break is not only a AGENCY $ pleasant relief from job duties but also a right and justifiable demand to ask from their em- ployers. The result is that the break has been written into many con- tracts. For many years now, it has been common knowledge that the formal rest period—time off with pay—leads to higher pro- ductivity. The coffee break is generally considered to be good psychologically and in produc- tivity, for both worker and em- ployer. Besides, workers will take time off whether or not the time is formally granted. The informal break is likely to go be- yond 15 or 20 minutes, the usual time given for a formal break. According to the National In- dustrial Conference Board, ‘“‘Fa- tigue studies and possible gains in productivity that might come from a short rest helped start the rest-period practice. More recently, evidence points to for- malized rest periods as a means of gaining greater control over time lost through informal rest periods.” Since the coffee break has be- come a standard item in a labor contract, the majority of em- ployers who still want a ‘“com- pensable coffee break.” (to de- duct the time spent from the worker’s total number of hours worked) are usually those who don’t have to deal with a union. Recently some employers in San Francisco were challenged Including the price seeing businessman reached 21 white slavery, dope peddling, and extortion. Green Felt Jungle. This is a digestion, of food poisoning . . level gangster no longer is a News and World Report.) J. $. Wallace Speaking of this and that I think the mink and the alley cat Are sisters under their skin. I HAVE A RECENT Reuters despatch beside my 1?" writer. It tells of a fresh outbreak of gang warfare on Riviera, gangs fighting for control “of the drug an titution rackets in thisc Mediterranean playland of m! aires and their Bikini-clad girl friends . immensely profitable traffic in drugs to the and prostitutes for wealthy vacationers.” j ing its Las Vegas is another playground of the rich, owen entry into this market to Bugsy Siegel. Before this a as Some of his story is told in the account of Las Vth written by Ed Reid and Ovid Demares under the title oat tar want to know how the other half lives. It has one aCe tion from Bugsy which sums up the practice of the pones, the Lucky Lucianos, the Frank Costellos: “ We don’t run for office we own the politicians This crude and ungentlemanly disclosure % dof Bugsy’s limitations and helps to explain why he die f lowing a bullet. Things have changed for the better, as as such crudness is concerned: “In the new world of gangster-businessmen ope the gangster has taken on a new image. As a rule, living character. More often he wears Ivy League sul ‘an lives quietly, often in the best residential communities res sends his children to select colleges. Sometimes ay public-relations firms to add lustre to his image. ~ > of sin the d pros: illion nizing .. gangs OFg states United he had been up for may et high jacking, rape, ™U work worth reading ! shows UP jj ie jn- 1 2 : al ee . if you prefer it, from SW crude, flashily _-(U.5: Like Smirnoff’s vodka, this leaves me breathless icq after this when I meet a top tycoon and want to S@ a with my usual reverence and respect, I'll have to he what if he is just another public relations product? te lu rate a by the U.S. Labor. Department for deducting coffee break time from the total number of hours worked, thus reducing the work- er’s weekly wage. This is a vio- lation of the U.S. Federal Labor Standards Act. An employer isn’t required to provide his em- ployees with coffee breaks, the ‘department said, but once he does he must pick up the tab for the time spent. A few years ago there were some “coffee-break strikes” in a few mid-western factories. These were duplicated this year by workers in Stirchley, Eng- land. Seventeen workers went on strike because they said their teapot “couldn’t produce a de- cent cup of tea.” The 17 workers were fired, but there was a chance that this dispute might have had re- percussions unimagined in Ame- rican industry. Sympathetic union workers | in the British tea industry dis- cussed the idea of striking in support of the Stirchley work- ers on the grounds that “all Bri- tishers are entitled to a morning and afternoon cup of tea as a civil right.” To their astonish- ment the tea industry workers learned that their employers might not object. “It could be good publicity to promote tea August 28, 1964—PACIFIC TR sales,” executives explain? The importance of os self has long been reall 1 ing the Middle Ages me the failure to provide grounds for divorce. first used coffee aS 4 The drink was desct aid in healing “molts stomach vapors, he and swelling.” A af black panacea would, ved ly, “calm an impass' ive and stimulate the P47 ed a campaign 10 é pe the drinking of coffe of the threat this po5* industry. The tery co klatsch” was origiN@ 4) to mean a “woman derisive connotation fo that coffee was not ; Germar. doctors ~~" ye' a woman drank coffee st ast? become sterile. Johann of wh Bach iidiculed this Pig wl, wrote a Coffee Cantalé he he puts the feelings ° Bi man women deprive 4 coffee into musical iH ptr With the popularl ince jy England, wine 19 ~offe 4; beer in Germany» 4 thé come to be consid? erican drink. “ wos Roe pune”