Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of the American labor movement shows that repeatedly employer's organizations like the National Manufacturers Association have used the phrase 'free from interference from any source' to mean a denial of the right of a labor union or labor unions actively to promote the organization of an unorganized factory or an unorganized industry. It is absurd to talk about Labor's rights to organize if in every factory workers, more or less at the mercy of the owners of their jobs, must organize spontaneously without any help from their fellows. Is this the interpretation...
...statement, which you quote, there is nothing to suggest that I am in favor of infringing in any way the right of free speech or free assembly. I am opposed to any such infringement. The workers have the right to meet among themselves or with others of their own choice to promote organization, with complete freedom from interference from any one whatsoever. The workers should be fully protected in this right by the public authorities. This necessarily includes the right of a labor union to promote by lawful and proper means the organization of an unorganized industry, which includes...
Normally the Orangemen of Northern Ireland are fanatical adherents of the Crown, regard it as a Protestant bulwark protecting them from their Catholic enemies in the Free State. First with astonishment, then with fury, Belfast Orangemen read a recent prognostication in Reynolds Illustrated News of London that the new King-Emperor may assert himself by trying to end the feud which divides his Irish subjects and bring the whole island under one Government. If His Majesty had any such ideas the Orangemen had no use for him, and up in Belfast they promptly raised a huge portrait of Edward VIII...
Pictures showing His Majesty beating an Orangeman's drum when Prince of Wales, were next burned at Belfast amid Irish jeers. Finally through Belfast streets rumbled a float on which an effigy of Irish Free State President Eamon de Valera dressed as a nurse attended a baby carriage in which sat an effigy of King Edward sucking a bottle of liquid labeled "DOPE...
...irate parts of Ireland together. In Dublin recently a Catholic alderman warned the Lord Mayor that he will probably be manhandled if he attends His Majesty's Coronation. Last week President de Valera formally announced that that piece of pageantry will be boycotted by his Free State which by no means has King Edward in a baby carriage...