Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first sentence sounds Lawrence's theme: "God, this is awful." Then he settles down to prove it with explicit descriptions of the hardships of barracks life and phonographic reproductions of the unqualified filth of his fellow-soldiers' speech. Most of the recruits had been taken off the dole, some were demoralized down-and-outers, a few were petty criminals who had escaped punishment by joining the Air Force. Even readers less puritanical than Lawrence may feel that he fell in with a particularly foul-mouthed crew. One pious soldier with whom he had attended church led the company...
...Sympathized with dole-drawers who said they had done no work for periods of up to 13 years and, when he found a man who said he had never in his life done any work, cried warmly, "That's bad luck...
...only possible destiny: revolution. Here he culls good from bad in discussing Section 7 (a), urging the Government to give up the hopeless job of enforcing "compulsory bargaining," but to save the principle of helping labor to organize. Here he treats the issue of public works vs. the dole, pointing to the middle line where government-made work will not so enticing and profitable that labor has no incentive to return to private employment...
...have the option, in the case of families who need actual subsistence, of putting them on the dole or putting them to work. They do not want to go on the dole, and they are 1,000 per cent right. We agree, therefore, that we must put them to work-work for a decent wage...
...remedy for unemployment is not a permanent dole. Of course, relief must be continued as long as the need for it exists. The American remedy for unemployment is real work at good wages. It is clear that limitation of production and destruction of crops is not going to provide this kind of work. "The remedy for monopoly and special privilege is to do away with them. This must be one of our first objectives. One of the chief causes for our economic difficulties is the tendency of monopoly to fix prices and retain special privileges...