Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hiking the numbers of unemployed to 350,000. Thus did the nether ends of industry fit themselves last week to the second attempt of the New Deal to put "a floor for wages, a ceiling for hours." Into effect at 12:01 a.m., October 24, went the Federal Fair Labor Standards...
...received less than 25? an hour. Twice as many, about 1,500,000 employes, work more than 44 hours. In future years the standards will grow stricter: beginning October 24, 1939 30? & 42 hours; October 1940 30? & 40 hours; October 1945 40? and 40 hours. Meantime, committees representing management, labor and the public may fix the wage minima actually applying to any industry anywhere between 30 and 40? (so long as the standards do not cause unemployment). Along with Wages & Hours goes Federal prohibition of Child Labor (under 16) in interstate commerce industries effective immediately and applying...
John L. Lewis, fiery commandant of C. I. O.'s labor legions, is slated to speak at the Law School in a series of Langdell lectures, sponsored by the Law School Committee, it was announced yesterday by its chairman James E. Ludlum...
...whom are engaged in the preparation of food in the Union, House, and Business School halls, the University has necessarily assumed the task of supporting hundreds of families who are dependent upon it for their sole incomes. If the College ventures to undertake this responsibility, ards set by a labor union whose tolerant and honorable methods of bargaining justify the plausi-it is only right that it should meet the high standbility of their claims...
...Labor. The New York Times's crack labor reporter, Louis Stark, concisely reviews Labor since the New Deal, foresees that industrial unionism will win out, bringing with it, probably, a new farmer-labor political party...