Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charging the United Mine Workers of America with " destructive monopoly of labor," the bituminous operators' special committee filed a brief with the United States Coal Commission, in which the union is denounced for maintaining " a campaign of deliberate violence...
...will go for past and future wars. The Secretary declares that the correct figure for military expenditure is 13.5%. He went further, charging the Council with apparent " intent to deceive the public" and advising Americans to "examine into the character and patriotism of those who are promoting the pacifist campaign...
...reported that some of President Harding's vacation advisers urged him to inaugurate an "open shop " campaign with a view to making the so-called "American plan " of labor policy a Republican plank in the next election. President Gompers of the A. F. of L. immediately issued an emphatic protest in which he compared the " open shop " advocates to the Italian Fascisti and wondered who would be their Mussolini...
...himself with the earlier " open shop " propaganda which was successful in all but the strongest unions in 1920 and 1921, and denounced it as one of the most fruitful causes of industrial strife during the past twelve months. As a practical politician he doubtless realizes that an "open shop " campaign has little chance of success in a rising tabor market. When business conditions are bad and the surplus of workers is great, the unions can be weakened, if not actually destroyed, by "open shop" contracts which penalize the worker with discharge if he keeps his union card. But when business...
Once again the attempt is made to buy Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, from Jefferson M. Levy, who has agreed to sell to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation. Most of the 48 Governors, whether Democrats or Republicans, are expected to do their bit in the $1,000,000 campaign which begins April 16. The Governor of Virginia is chairman of the Governors' committee. Despite the Democratic lien on the spellbinding words " Thomas Jefferson," the campaign is to render non-partisan honor to the memory of the author of the Declaration of Independence. "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness " belong...