Word: employables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich and famed in the service of pioneering railroads beset by train robbers. But while boyish hearts thumped to the exploits of intrepid Pinkerton men in dime novels, Labor grew to hate the name more & more. For Pinkerton's was also making money by supplying armed guards to employers with labor troubles. In 1892 hard-boiled Henry Clay Frick imported 300 "Pinks" to fight a bloody, all-day battle with his steelworkers at Homestead, Pa. Ten were killed, 30 wounded and the public loudly protested. Congress passed a curious law forbidding the Government or any District of Columbia official...
...events. They found Edwin C. Hill, whos sought no radio news scoops but brought to his audiences the "human side of the news." For along time his voice boomed out for Hearts's newsreel. Just as Hearst took his name from Hearst Metrotone news, Mr. Hill voluntarily left the employ of the Lord of San Simeon and his pictures of Pacific battle fleets. Edwin C. Hill is now heard weekly over the radio in "Behind the Headlines...
Licensed men (masters, mates, pilots, engineers) won pay increases and other benefits but conceded the right of shipowners to pick ships' officers and employ non-union men. Two of the seven striking unions had not yet reached agreements, but settlements were expected by arbitration or otherwise. Human nature in the West had grown just as weary as in the East...
...organization, the Maritime Federation, which includes all grades of seamen from cooks to mates, assume the responsibility for the safety of the passengers and cargoes. He is perfectly willing that the steamship companies should continue to shoulder this burden; all he wants is to dictate whom the companies shall employ. But there is as yet no "automatic pilot" for ships, and the human element is still by far the most important. Obviously therefore, aside from all consideration of the inherent unfairness of the monopolistic demand of Mr. Bridges, human safety demands that those responsible be given unfettered freedom to select...
...itself much less seriously than most of it? predecessors in the recruiting-poster school of cinema. Told with an absolute minimum of bugle-blowings, flag-hoistings and en masse exhibitions of clean-limbed young U. S. manhood, its raffish story of an ex-policeman's career in the employ...