Word: employers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good deal of hope in official quarters is placed in immigration. With the present shortage of labor France is forced to employ a great many foreign workers, many of whom have applied for naturalization...
...employ an Irish bull, the chief event of last week was one that didn't happen. Despite rumors in and out of Wall Street, the meeting of Governors of Federal Reserve Banks in Washington adjourned without proposing an advance in rediscount rates...
...syndicalism law. The prosecution contended that Foster was a member of an organization (the Trade Union Educational League, a subsidiary of the Communist Party) which advocated violence in overthrowing the Government of the United States. The star witness of the prosecution was "K-97," an agent provocateur in the employ of the Burns Detective Agency, who attended the convention as a delegate and turned informer on the defendants. The defense, conducted by Frank P. Walsh, former joint chairman with ex-President Taft of the War Labor Board, attempted to prove that the defendant's advocacy of revolution...
Frank P. Walsh, attorney for Foster, told the jury that the defense would prove that Foster attended the convention, not as a Communist, but as a fraternal delegate from Illinois. He charged that a secret service operative in the employ of the United States had succeeded in joining the Communist organization and was responsible for any violent statements attributed to the defendants. The party convention on which the raid was made, declared Mr. Walsh, was called for the purpose of abolishing underground tactics in favor of coming out into the open as a legal group. When the vote was taken...
...History, Government and Economics. "Attendance at the conferences is not compulsory. There is no system of monitoring or reports of absences to the college office. The fear of disciplinary action cannot serve as a stimulus to meet appointments or to prepare assignments. It is true that the authority to employ disciplinary measures can be invoked if the occasion arises, but in eight years no resort to such measures has been necessary. Yet the cutting of tutorial appointments is comparatively rare, far less than the cutting of courses. The majority of concentrators, well over 60 per cent, seldom fail to meet...