Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With such a fruitless argument, it is little wonder that national "issues" have had less political effect than national events. The cost of Government, the centralization of Government, how Labor should be freed and Industry regulated have concerned practical politicians far less than such hard facts as Depression during early 1938 (and Recovery this fall), low farm prices, distribution of relief cash, the growing clamor of oldsters for pensions...
...Homer Martin . . . will be able to make an important announcement covering the union's future relations with the Ford Motor Co." With Ford's help, Mr. Martin was able to say last week: "It [the parts agreement] has more potentialities than any other single thing in American labor history." Chances of recognition of the U. A. W. by Henry Ford himself, last major holdout, Homer Martin would not discuss, but there was hope in his remark: "Nobody can do a better job of standardizing wages, hours and conditions than labor and industry cooperating on a national scale...
...Senators and candidates for the Senate last week got a letter from A.F. of L. President William Green. Subject: NLRB's Donald Wakefield Smith. Incumbents were informed that A.F. of L. opposes the reappointment of Mr. Smith to the Labor Board. Candidates were pointedly asked to state their positions on the matter before election day. First to respond was New York's John Lord O'Brian, Republican candidate for the Senate, who promised to vote against Donald Wakefield Smith. Said Candidate O'Brian: "Members of every board exercising discretionary or judicial powers should be wholly unbiased...
...French Confédération Générale du Travail (General Confederation of Labor) represents 5,000,000 enrolled trade unionists and is headed by Léon Jouhaux. who last year held important negotiations in Moscow with Soviet Trade Union heads. The Confederation retorted last week that the program of Radical Socialist Daladier is "admissible only in a fascist regime. . . . The C. G. T. will know how to take measures for its defense...
...Oxford last week came the first British by-election since Munich. Labor and Liberal candidates had withdrawn to better the chances of the anti-Chamberlain candidate, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 59, famed Master of Balliol College. Widely respected as a "Fabian Socialist," The Master of Balliol offered himself this time as an "Independent Progressive...