Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defining the middle class as "self sustaining and self employing," Lahey warned the gathering to get over the idea of making any money and suggested that for those who had a little idealism, propaganda or legal aid for the cause of labor would be a "big career but you would never get rich...
Unknown to itself and to the U. S. public is the real American Federation of Labor. It is a jack of 1,619 trade unions, a many-millioned mass which has virtually no credo because within it is every credo under the U. S. sun. But there are other A. F. of L.s. The one usually labeled in newsprint as "the A. F. of L." is a tight little club of 17 executive councilmen who expound and at intervals alter the otherwise missing credo. Last is the A. F. of L. which goes on show as "the annual convention...
Last week the convention and The Club met simultaneously at Houston, Texas. Assembled in the lofty new Coliseum were 600 career men of Labor. Mostly they were gentlemen toilers who had worked up to union office and comfortable expense accounts. Plain men seated along pine tables, they daily went through the conventional motions indicated by their President William Green, a plain man whose career had been a model of its kind. At evening the placid delegates rejoined their wives, retired to the movies or enjoyed simple sociability in hotel rooms. A minority frequented the convention's one play spot...
...amend it in some fashion, they debated just how far to go in rewriting a statute which has not worked out altogether to their benefit. Before the Supreme Court upheld the Act last year, said the council in its annual report, "the administration of the law by the National Labor Relations Board was, on the whole, just and proper. . . . Since the decisions ... the Board has abandoned whatever restraint it imposed upon itself . . . and has brazenly and by official acts declared itself a proponent...
...lesson, continued the "spokesman," is the same as in Europe: if people stopped calling names and rattling industrial swords, the result would be peace instead of war between Government and industry, between industry and labor...