Word: job
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Possible abuses in the operation of the act have been carefully and wisely safeguarded. The grasping employer cannot hold the laborer to his ill-paid job by threat of imprisonment or fine if the latter ceases work. Persons temporarily unemployed by reason of differences with employers, as the law phrases it, are not included in its provisions. The law-makers, however, have not exempted the so-called "idle rich." The receipt of income from property or other source is not considered the equivalent of "gainful employment." Students are the only other class of citizens excluded from the law's operation...
Several of the plants, upon taking new and untrained men into their employ, are offering these beginners an opportunity to learn a job first and then start working at it. The Remington Arms, Union Metallic Cartridge Company, for example, has established a training school for new men, where the latter are taught a trade, and after they have completed a thorough course at this school they go to work at the machines...
...army and issues orders. Then the various divisional, brigade, and regimental officers repeat these commands after camouflaging them in different ways. It is the platoon leader who carries out these orders, and he alone is responsible for the success of them all. If he knows his own job, and knows it thoroughly, backwards and upside down, as he should, his platoon will be a machine that can overcome the disciplined hosts of the Kaiser. But if he lacks that absolute knowledge he will lack self-confidence and character, and his men, reflecting the spirit of their leader, will...
...going to be platoon leaders, and it is up to you now to learn every detail of your future job so that your command will first respect you for your knowledge and ability: and then love you for your care of them...
...land, fixing prices, and holding them, preventing land-speculation and every other form of robbery and injustice which in the end comes back on labor; it means building houses, schools, hospitals, theatres and churches; giving its workers as it gives its fighters the best conditions possible for the special job they have to do. The Government has at last set up the agency to do this, and put good men in charge. Let every man who has the winning of this war at heart push this work forward.--From statement by R. Clipston Sturgis...