Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardheaded old Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab and his smoother, younger prototype, Eugene Grace, made labor history 20 years ago when they installed an "Employe Representation Plan" in Bethlehem Steel Corp. By the standards of the nonunion steel industry of 1918, E. R. P. was revolutionary. It assumed that workers had a right to some voice in the conduct of the plants where they worked...
...State Street's view of the appointment is of little consequence. The fact is that Roosevelt has appointed a man of integrity, ability, and tolerance to the highest legal position in the land. The charge that Frankfurter is too guided by emotion in questions of labor may be well founded, but few will deny that Harvard's professor far outshone his rivals in legal experience and vision. Perhaps Frankfurter himself hammered home the nail when he said in his book with Dean Landis on the Supreme Court, "The powers and spirit thus demanded of the bar, the universities alone...
...asked for a 15% wage cut. Franklin Roosevelt's Railway Fact-Finding Board said No. This left the railroads, stretched between the engine of rising costs and the caboose of lagging traffic, with no recourse but legislative aid. So Mr. Roosevelt asked three railroad officials and three railroad labor officers to prepare proposals for Congress...
...since October, cudgeling their brains four days a week with the aid of a battery of experts, have been the six railroaders-Presidents Martin Withington Clement of Pennsylvania and Ernest Eden Norris of Southern, Vice Chairman Carl Raymond Gray of Union Pacific, Chairman George McGregor Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives' Association, President Bert Mark Jewell of the Railway Employes' Department of A. F. of L. and President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Last week, after Messrs. Gray and Harrison again conferred with Franklin Roosevelt, the committee finally reported...
...topics were notable by omission- labor and funded debt. The latter is significant since Senator Burton K. Wheeler, chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee which will chaperon the report in the Senate, firmly believes that top-heavy funded debt is the roads' chief ailment. Knowing this and well remembering that the similar Splawn proposals died in Congress, the railroad industry last week was not too sanguine of legislative help. But Franklin Roosevelt still sat pretty, for if Congress again refuses to act he cannot be blamed...