Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outcome would indicate eventual success or failure for his whole crusade. Labor Cancer, Imbued as a boy with the doctrines of a union printer in his father's shop, Thomas Dewey professes himself a true friend of Organized Labor. As such, he views with sorrow and anger the growth of the labor union as the prime tool of industrial racketeers. The technique of industrial racketeering, he has discovered, is simple, standardized. A racketeer gets control of a union, or a union leader turns racketeer. In such highly-organized industries as New York City's, a strike...
...mounds of dirt now piled up in rows along the river bank will continue to mar the landscape until spring. This earth, taken from excavations in Arlington, will be spread along the bank to foster the growth of grass. The growing of grass and the building of a stone barrier are the twin measures being used by workers of the Maintenance Division of the Metropolitan District Commission to check crosion, beautify the river bank, and preserve the Business School...
Expenditures- "The normal growth of the country naturally reflects itself in increased costs of government. . . . The cost of new functions and duties can be substantially reduced only by curtailing the function or the duty." So wrote the President last week. Before Depression the War and Navy Departments together spent in a typical year about $700,000,000. The 1938 budget provided $981,000,000 for national defense...
Thus under the New Deal "growth of the country" and "new functions" have added about 57% to the ordinary cost of government...
...Union membership is negligible, and it does not seem likely that the Union at present has enrolled half of the General Motors employees. In the course of time an exclusive bargaining agency may grow up in General Motors, but if this happens, the process should be one of natural growth and a minority organization should not be permitted by agreement with the employer to become the exclusive bargaining agency. Applied to industry at large, that principle would give employers altogether too much opportunity to decide who should represent their employees...