Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufacturers (membership: 50,000). Witness Edgerton had been arguing at length before the committee in behalf of increased "flexibility" in the new tariff bill. Others who had demanded the same thing were Vice President Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor; Chester Gray, legal representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation; John G. Lerch, counsel of the American Tariff League. Mr. Lerch also called for a change from foreign to domestic valuation in administering the new tariff bill...
...question of continuing Stanley Baldwin's "safeguarding of industry" tariff, the Labor government received the surprising majority of 120 votes, more than even the most optimistic Laborites expected. London business circles felt sure that the duties on motor cars, pianos, machinery?all typical U. S. exports?will be canceled at the passing of next year's budget...
Politicians were less interested in the subject of the vote than its effect. It was the first time that the Liberals, who voted with the Government, had voted unanimously since the War. Experts prophesied a much longer Labor reign than the two years Premier MacDonald had asked...
...Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Britain's impotent minority Labor Government, reopened diplomatic relations with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Within a few months the Labor Government was defeated on its Russian policy, a general election was called. At the height of a bitter campaign Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail printed in noble indignation a letter apparently from Grigory Evseevich Zinoviev, "Bomb boy of Bolshevism," onetime director of the Third International, urging British Communists to revolt, Communist sympathizers in the British Army and Navy to mutiny. As a result the election went overwhelmingly Conservative. Soviet officials denied the Zinoviev...
...laude from Harvard in 1910. A Certified Public Accountant in 1916, he next year joined the Federal Trade Commission, was sent to Chicago to investigate Armour & Co. Working with the U. S. Food Administration in 1918, he left it for another investigation: milk. He joined the staff of the Labor Bureau, Inc. in 1921, is now President...