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Girls are paid by the day, 80 sen (40¢) to start, and work on eight-hour shifts with 20-minute rests about every two hours, and 20 minutes for lunch. Small pay is offset by privileges, such as the right to free courses of study at company schools, an especially popular course being "The Arrangement of Flowers in Pots, Bowls and Vases...
...conditions. The report constituted a declaration of war. After interminable skirmishing the first major victory for the Church was the abolition of the twelve-hour day in the plants of the U. S. Steel Corp. by the late great Steelman Elbert Henry Gary, who was long famed for referring to the Bible in public speeches. Mr. Gary did not say what hours would be tolerated, but remarked "it is now time to adopt the eight-hour...
Lobbyist Arnold's lobbyist career began in 1908 in Austin, Tex., whence he was driven by an irate governor. He worked in vain for the railroads against the Adamson eight-hour law, for the brewers against Prohibition, for special groups against the 19th amendment (woman suffrage). In 1918 he was investigated by a congressional committee for spreading German propaganda. According to Chairman Caraway of the Senate lobby committee, Lobbyist Arnold would take any side of any public question...
...gruff Dr. Schacht concluded with visible emotion: "I must say that the gentle and moderating influence of Monsieur Delacroix did much to remove our post-War difficulties." Humanitarians recall that during Leon Delacroix's two years as Prime Minister he wangled through Belgium's obstreperous Parliament the eight-hour day, universal suffrage, tax reform and the temperance law.* After adjourning for one day to mourn Belgium's Delacroix, the bankers got back to their ballroom, soon rounded out a major portion of their labors by announcing that they had reached agreement in principle on the following attributes...
...fashioned people, May Day means flowers, grass, picnics, children, clean frocks. To up-and-doing Socialists and Communists it means speechmaking, parading, bombs, brickbats, conscientious violence. This connotation dates back to May Day, 1886, when some 200,000 U. S. workmen engineered a nationwide strike for an eight-hour...