Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What it discovers is that "the friction between the University and the city has been caused by the fact that the two feel no common interest and are suspicious and ignorant of each other." The base of this feeling is the contrast between the mass of low-paid industrial labor in Cambridge and the wealthy and irresponsible student body This fact has not been stressed before, and certainly no account of the relations between town and gown can ignore it. But there is a long gap between the existence of such disparities of wealth and the present tenseness between...
Weeks of proclamation and polemic had made the positions of both sides of the dispute clear. Labor Leader Leon Jouhaux had declared that the decree laws were "unacceptable as written." Particularly unacceptable to Leader Jouhaux was the decree extending the work week from 40 to 45 hours in war industries. French labor had won the 40-hour week from Leon Blum's Popular Front Government. Leader Jouhaux could not afford to lose it, even in one group of industries, without a fight...
...countries had opened the way for dictatorships. ... You showed that you had learned a lesson and understood that the best guarantee of liberty is the authority of the State, and that is why you refused to strike against the Republic, which is the mother of the right to organize labor as well as other privileges of a free government. ... I said that I would enforce respect for republican law. It was respected...
...were serving time for murder. He, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, führer of the green-shirted zealots who carried little bags of Rumanian soil tied around their necks, was under a ten-year sentence at hard labor for conspiring against his country with a "foreign Government"-i.e., Germany-and inciting to revolt. Fiery, handsome "Little Hitler"Codreanu might just as well have been in jail for murder, for he had a notorious reputation as a political assassin...
...conference was a series of informal presentations and discussions of invited experts in government, business, labor, and administration, with undergraduates concentrating in one of the social sciences...