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Word: labor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unemployed is daily assuming more threatening proportions in the United States. While Congress is groping with conservative haste among a multitude of bills designed to relieve the situation, the curtailment of war industries and the rapid discharge of soldiers is adding thousands each week to the already over-supplied labor market. When we add to these two potent sources of unemployed the present inevitable halt in the industrial machinery while it is changing from war to peace operation, the problems of relief become both grave and complex in the extreme...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SURPLUS LABOR. | 2/5/1919 | See Source »

...merely strive to eliminate the effects and not the causes of the difficulty. It is foolish to expect industry, however willing it may be, to create jobs arbitrarily out of pure patriotism. A few thousand can be taken care of in this way, but the majority of the surplus labor can only be absorbed through increased production founded upon the solid basis of increased demand for products. The real remedy to this pressing situation must come through the stop-page of the streams of labor which are constantly adding their volumes to the idle army already tramping the streets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SURPLUS LABOR. | 2/5/1919 | See Source »

...called forth three powers which will not allow a return of the world to pre-war channels: labor, Bolshevism, and Wilson. The constant attention focused upon labor during the war has brought out its full importance. Men are accustomed to look upon the individual as the unit. They have learned the lesson of concerted action. They have acquired a new point of view and are prepared to accept new ideas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE QUESTIONS. | 2/1/1919 | See Source »

...moment has come to decide between him (Wilson) and Lenine," says the New York World. The question is put to all people. The united labor party is refusing a return to old policies. We must of necessity choose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE QUESTIONS. | 2/1/1919 | See Source »

...series of congresses held in large cities. Ex-President William H. Taft will preside at each congress; others in the party are James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, Henry Van Dyke, ex-minister to The Netherlands, Frank P. Walsh, former joint chairman of the National War Labor Board,. Mrs. Phillip North Moore, president of the National Council of Women, and Rabbi Wise of the Free Synagogue, New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRES. LOWELL TO TOUR FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS | 1/13/1919 | See Source »

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