Word: hires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selling goods or building a mousetrap, has no gift for wooing the public: he needs an associate who can expound his "social responsibilities" to workers, to the buying public, to local communities, to the Federal Government. The easiest way to get this done is to hire one of the small group of well-fed, top-flight "public relations counsels...
...agreeing to hire all new employees through the A. F. of L. and by urging all non-affiliated laborers to join Locals 186 and 112, the university has paved the way for an all-union shop in the kitchens. As a further concession wage increases, which amount to as much as $2 a week in the case of waitresses, have been successfully agreed upon...
...University will hire all new employees from the A. F. of L. "or if the union cannot within a reasonable time furnish a suitable employee, from such other sources as the University may deem proper". These workers, however, must join the union within three weeks...
With reference to the demand for a closed shop, the University offered to hire kitchen and dining-hall workers exclusively from the A. F. of L. provided such workers could be obtained within 48 hours. Otherwise outsiders would be employed and retained on condition they joined the union in three weeks...
...Labor's responsibility in Recovery came right after Capital's in Harry Hopkins' mind. Now that the Government has strengthened its arm, "Labor's contribution . . . must be tolerance and fairness. . . . Labor must fully realize that under our economic system, businessmen have to make money to hire workers." Secretary Hopkins revived a report current in January but then disavowed by him: that among his major assignments is to do the job left undone by Secretary of Labor Perkins-get A. F. of L. and C.I.O. to bury the hatchet. "Business," said Business' new servant, "finds...