Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While Labor's top leaders continued to jockey for advantage and hold off peace between C. I. O. and A. F. of L., a small voice piped up from the ranks last week. At Sacramento, Calif., 27 A. F. of L. and six C. I. O. local unions got together in a United Labor Council. Purposes: to insure respect for each other's picket lines regardless of affiliation; to ask their national officers to heed Franklin Roosevelt's pleas for Labor peace...
...grew to a claimed 400,000 members and signed up 850 textile plants, brusque and able Sidney Hillman gained in stature. He did not trouble to conceal Francis Gorman's descent into obscurity. Labor gossips soon reported that Mr. Gorman was fretting in his Washington corner. Last summer, he confirmed the gossip by suddenly quitting the council...
Little Jim Carey's big United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America last week ended a wage dispute by taking part of the chance on prosperity that every employer has to take. Other party to this extraordinary labor deal was Mergenthaler Linotype Co., which makes typesetting machines for printers the world over...
...about $200,000) of his annual wage bill in escrow, the sum to revert to the company if it lost money next year, to go to the workers if a profit was earned. When young Mr. Carey's young deputy, William Mitchell, turned this down, New York labor mediators suggested that Mergenthaler continue to pay 95% of present wages, put 5% in escrow until September 1939. To this Messrs. Mackey and Mitchell last week consented. At fiscal year's end, an impartial arbitrator will go over the Mergenthaler books. If Mergenthaler is in the red, the company takes...
...National Labor Relations Board is facing a crists because the vigorous and determined movement to "emasculate" the act which set it up is being met by a wearied and weakened defense, said Dr. J. Raymond Walsh, former instructor in Economics, in a speech sponsored by the Teachers Union, at Phillips Brooks House yesterday...