Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to contemporary folklore, the war in U. S. Labor is chiefly a war between William Green and John L. Lewis. Last week the heroes of this illusion continued to nurture it. The waning 58th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor in Houston provided an excellent stage for Mr. Green and colleagues, who made believe that "Dictator" Lewis had only to step out of C.I.O. in order to bring about peace. In Washington, Mr. Lewis gravely responded in kind: "I am willing to resign tomorrow or any day thereafter as chairman of the C.I.O. if Mr. Green will...
...leading labor peace revivalist was Franklin Roosevelt. On the same day last fortnight, he recommended peace in a message to the A.F. of L., and via the "White House Spokesman" read to Industry and Labor alike a polemic on the evils of sabre-rattling. To him then went Newspaper Guildsman Heywood Broun. Let the President, said C.I.O.'s Broun, create a commission to give U.S. Labor the same cool study which was recently applied at White House order to British and Swedish industrial relations...
...Tobin, one of the few New Dealers on the council, in the last two Presidential campaigns served Franklin Roosevelt on the Democratic Labor Committee. As a result of his efforts last week, President Green was noticeably less militant than at the start of the convention. Invited to walk through A.F. of L.'s "open door" were C.I.O. textile, automobile, garment and oil unions. Cried Bill Green to them: "The key has been thrown away and we are singing that happy refrain, 'Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home...
During the past three years. Ford Motor Co., although its big River Rouge plant remains unorganized, has not been able to avoid all contact with organized labor. As local unions of the United Automobile Workers of America established contact with Ford management in regional assembly plants, potent Personnel Director Harry H. Bennett announced in Detroit that Ford's basic labor policy had not changed. Last week Mr. Bennett had occasion to say this again...
...press, more surprised perhaps than the participants in the surprise party, was jolted into recalling the predictions of some prophets, that at some day unpredictable Henry Ford would surprise the U.S. by making a gesture toward organized labor...