Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backed their candidate for a judgeship: "I guess it's more important for us to get a good judge than for me to stay in the Senate." Washington consensus: he is a plodding, middle-of-the-road legislator of the type which flourishes in contemporary Ohio, where Labor, Farmers, Pensioners all press hard on politicians. Chief idiosyncrasy, which he shares with his colleague Vic Donahey : chewing...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins today revealed that she has "something concrete" on which to base "great hopes" that the three-year civil war between the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization will end within six months. She declined to elaborate on the "something concrete...
...nine pipes. Unaware of his heroism, the Commodore puffed vigorously and said: "I hope the tugboat strike will be over before the Queen Mary returns." And so he will go down in marine history as the first man to dock an Ocean liner without tags and in labor history as a most gallant scab...
When questioned as to his attitude toward picketing, Lahey, who was the labor writer for the Chicago Daily News said, "In this stage of labor relations violence and the sit-down strike are the only weapons against repression." He brought out the fact that 95 per cent of all sit-down strikes took place in a period when employers were deliberately disobeying the Wagner Act on advice of counsel...
...corporations to solve the problems which they create such as old age pensions, permanent unemployment and opportunity for young people," Lahey continued. He cited Australia as one of the many countries which was far ahead of the United States with an administrative labor board...