Word: jobless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning. As one result of the Mayor's adventure, the Lodge is to have more "showers" and "better accommodations for the "down-and-outers." The Peters way of roughing it facilitates the winning of appropriations. There is no refusing a man who shares the lot of the jobless and the homeless. A virile chap, the Harvard-slum Mayor. New York Times
...Bolshevists; the 30,000,000 workers of the civilized world want to be shown the way out. The Bolshevists urge a bloody revolution, and some times progress better than the larger number of advocates of steady evolution, because of their better understanding, appreciation and sympathy with the workers. A jobless laborer is easy prey for them; if he is busy, he pays no attention. In Glasgow, where nearly all the shipworkers have irregular jobs there is unbelievable unrest and misery. On the other hand, in Middleboro, England, the radicals can get no converts because the men are happy...