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...Government in London had instant repercussions in the national Government last week. No sooner had the County Council an nounced its slum clearance program than the national Government pulled from its hat the largest slum clearance project Britain has ever known. Covering all England and Wales, it was to employ 115,000 men continuously for five years, cost the nation ?115,000,000 ($575,000,000). In various cities 266,851 tenements were to be demolished and new houses built, to rent from $1.50 to $2 per week for small houses, from $2.25 to $3 for flats. In country districts...
Robert Gordon Switz was born in East Orange 30 years ago, the son of Theodore Switz, a naturalized Russian. His brother Paul was a star footballer, Yale 1929. Brother Theodore is a chemical economist, employed until recently by Lehman Corp., an investment trust sponsored by the New York banking firm from which Herbert H. Lehman resigned when he became Governor of New York. Robert attended Mercersburg Academy, did not go to college. In 1922 he shipped as a seaman on the S. S. St. Paul in a pair of white linen knickerbockers with $5 in cash. Landing in Hamburg...
...says explicitly that employers must deal with "representatives" that the workmen themselves choose or elect. But in the case of the employ organizations, created within a shop or wholly from employees of a certain company, with no outside spokesmen from National Labor Unions, the question arises whether the election was fair and whether these same unions, if really left to themselves, without influence from the employer's side, would join the A. F. of L. system or retain their own spokesmen...
...Roosevelt myth, that "system and "organization" and "planning" can enable a broken industrial structure to employ millions of men and to increase wages, will last just so long as the Labor Board can avoid facing the issue. One ounce of national collective bargaining, through the American Federation of Labor, is enough to upset the scales. The case against the Roosevelt myth has been drawn up by the employers, who show convincingly that they can no longer afford to make the concessions which the administration demands. It has also been presented by Mr. Harold Laski and Mr. John Strachey, who point...
...will create a highly precarious situation for Herr Adolph. The only way of avoiding this situation is to divert the minds of the people by war; and since war forms a cardinal point in the foreign policy of Hitler, it may be assumed that he will not neglect to employ it as a means of relieving pressure at home. The Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, then, emerges as a potent cause for future war, and thus becomes a threatening and significant problem of far more than internal German interest...