Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheap land (near the Negro quarter), with union labor, standard materials and a satisfactory profit to the contractor, he put up a one-story structure bounding three sides of a rectangle with a sunken grass court (Powell & Morgan, architects). Ten living units of four rooms & bath each have individual front doors opening in this court. Each unit has its own heating plant. There are no garages. Rent: $25 per month per unit, or $6.25 per room...
...biggest unsettled labor question in the U. S. is whether A. F. of L. and C. I. O. shall remarry or else forever go their separate ways. The matchmaker, Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins, last week merely wisecracked as she parried questions...
...Pittsburgh for its first convention. Object: to establish a "permanent C. I. O.'' Last week, however, A. F. of L.'s William Green printed in his American Federationist an offer to resume negotiations with C. I. O. where they were dropped last December. To canny labor observers this was a small sign that Administration matchmaking is having effect behind the scenes...
...long as his interests are those of the community at large. Asked "Will you grant a general amnesty after the war is over?" the General replied: "There should not be returned to society an element of fermentation and deterioration, but I believe in redemption through the penalty of labor...
First elections for municipal councillors "since Munich" were held last week throughout England and Wales. There was no landslide either way but the Conservative Party made a quiet net gain of 20 seats, mainly at the expense of the Labor Party which suffered a net loss of 17 seats. The Liberals lost two seats, Independents...