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...Workers' Union, the Irish Free State. As a member of the Judiciary Committee of the House in the 62nd Congress, he sponsored the 'Clayton Act which declared that labor unions could not be prosecuted under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. As Solicitor General he upheld the Adamson Eight-Hour Law for railroad employes and prosecuted several anti-trust cases...
Premier MacDonald's Government in Britain is declared to be the Reds' worst enemy. "Nothing is being done for the workers, but everything for the capitalists." His advocacy of an eight-hour day is "merely to help British trade," that of a disarmament conference is "because Britain has been hopelessly beaten by France in the armaments race...
...Visitors at the White House included : Judge E. H. Gary, Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation, who declared that the change to an eight-hour day in the steel mills had increased the cost of production 10%; Governor Towner of Porto Rico and members of the Porto Rican legislature; the "Coolidge-for-President" Club of New Jersey-its members wearing six-inch red-white-and-blue buttons, "Coolidge Again"; Speaker Gillett of the House, introducing his nephew; Sir Robert Home; Charles D. Hilles, Republican leader in New York; Comptroller of the Currency Dawes and three Indianapolis bankers; Governor Morrow...
...daughter and take his throne is first revealed in the little circle of plotters, one of the less hardened rebels inadvertently exclaims, "May God forgive us," whereupon Father Hyacinth remarks, "Oh, He will--I can arrange that." It is therefore surprising to find Sancho advocating tax reduction, an eight-hour day and the World Court at a time when the priests still thought they constituted an Election Committee to the Kingdom of Heaven. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to see and enjoy "Sancho Panza" without troubling one's head in the least about politics. No doubt Lengyel...
Said he: "If a man working an eight-hour day making a whole pin is replaced by a man working a ten-hour day making part of a pin and not knowing how the pin is made, that is not civilization, but terrible degradation. By adopting Socialism you can be a Robot two hours a day and have the rest of the time to yourself...