Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having been suspended by A. F. of L. after joining C. I. O., and having failed to reunite the warring houses, David Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers of America last week quit C. I. O. President David Dubinsky felt that John L. Lewis had done Labor peace great harm by calling a convention in Pittsburgh this week to turn the Committee for Industrial Organization into a permanent "Congress...
Said Dubinsky's executive board, representing 250,000 of C. I. O.'s claimed 4,000,000 members: "We do not believe now, and we have never believed, that two separate organizations are required to achieve the common objectives of labor...
Such was the prayer offered by the Rev. James Boyd when the Southern Pine Association met recently in New Orleans to consider the effects of the Federal Fair Labor Standards...
...General Hugh Johnson been in Elmer Andrews' shoes, however, hell would surely have popped and dead cats would have passed each other in midair. For far and wide, U. S. businessmen were unhappy. What most of them wanted last week was not relief from upped labor costs but relief from uncertainty. From a Detroit hotel which feared that elevator boys who serve traveling salesmen were engaged in interstate commerce, to a Texas turkey raiser who wanted to know whether employes who gathered his turkey eggs had to get 25? an hour, employers were in a dither to know whether...
...sloppy a statute as ever was slapped together by a closing Congress. Since the Fair Labor Standards Act went into effect on October 24, its botched provisions had turned out to be among those with the widest effects. U. S. business still gets along as well as it does principally because the law does not apply to some 33,000,000 of 44,000,000 gainfully employed people in the U. S., and because it alters the wages or hours of no more than 3,000,000 of those to whom it does apply...