Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gardner sent in two companies of National Guardsmen, also an outside judge to investigate. Forty of the mill workers were arrested for riot and rebellion but released without bail. R. W. Baldwin, chief of the Marion Manufacturing Co., blamed Vice President John A. Peel of the State Federation of Labor for the deaths. John Peel, of course, blamed Manufacturer Baldwin in his speech at the quadruple funeral. The service was held in a scrub-oak grove. The four pine coffins, painted grey, lay on a low platform. Four girls led the hymn-singing, which included this chant: We are building...
...TIME, Sept. 23). The 16 defendants, mostly Northern organizers of the National Textile Workers' Union (Communist), hired a new lawyer-a big-framed, ingratiating Baptist named Frank Flowers who voted for Al Smith and has conservative social views. His type and standing were expected to help the "atheistic" labor radicals with the fundamentalist jury. Further help to the defendants, who were pleading they shot in self-defense when Sheriff Aderholt came to "raid" their headquarters, seemed to lie in recent episodes of the textile war- unionists flogged, one woman murdered, the Marion slaughter. To meet these changed aspects...
...MITTEN, 1864-1929. Soon after, his motormen, busmen, taxi drivers learned that most of the Mitten millions (variously estimated at from $3,000,000 to $10,000,000) were to be left in trust for "the promotion and advancement of the cause of cooperation between capital and labor and the furtherance and continuance of the Mitten Plan...
...Cambridge, Mass., Sophomore Lawrence B. Cohen Jr., president of Harvard's Socialist Club, was arrested for handing out pamphlets expressing a Socialist welcome to the Socialist Prime Minister. Excerpt: "Do not be deceived; MacDonald is not a public menace, but he is a Socialist, and Labor candidates said last spring, 'We are not concerned with patching up the rents in a bad system, but with transforming Capitalism into Socialism.' " Next day Socialist Cohen told newsgatherers he expected his father, said to be a wealthy Manhattan attorney, would disinherit him because "he has no sympathy with my statements...
...proud. Self-taught in the four legal codes of Egypt ,† she earns some $25,000 a year. What Mme. Garzouzi said last week she said in perfect English. But because her subject was the proposed Anglo-Egyptian Treaty (TIME, Aug. 19), which Prime Minister MacDonald's British Labor Government offers as the "extreme limit" to which it can grant Egyptian independence, hypothetically granted in 1922, Mme. Garzouzi's voice shivered and swelled. Said she: "Never trust an Englishman's promise or agreements where British interests are at stake. . . . Who, knowing them, would be so foolish...