Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Cárdenas once summed up his education program to a friendly Communist admirer from Manhattan thus : "The child must learn the secrets of Labor. . . . The child must be taught a sense of the collective. Reading and writing are sterile unless they are used socially. ... In most instances, the child's parents are both illiterate and individualistic. Our problem is to teach the child what he does not learn at home...
...American Federation of Teachers is the labor union of U. S. schoolteachers, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Until a year ago A. F. T. was fonder of a fight than of its dignity. Its conventions were lively and acrimonious. Last week, retiring to the little town of Cedar Point, Ohio (an amusement resort) for its 22nd annual meeting, A.F.T.. by compromise and finesse, succeeded in attracting almost no public attention...
...offer from Mr. Green to let the teachers' organization, which has refused to pay the special assessment for fighting C. I. O.. use the assessment for its own organizing work. The convention unanimously approved this face-saver, kept itself in good standing with both camps of Labor...
When U. S. Tennis Champion Donald Budge returned to the U. S. three weeks ago with three of this season's foreign tennis crowns (Australian, French, English) on his carroty head, he turned his thoughts to defense of the Davis Cup, scheduled for Labor Day weekend at Germantown, Pa. "If Australia beats Germany in the interzone final, I figure Adrian Quist and John Bromwich might be good for one victory apiece in the challenge round against us," said...
...Harlan County, one day three years ago, a crusading prosecuting attorney named Elmon Middleton climbed into his coupe, stepped on the starter, blew himself to Kingdom Come. One of 18 sticks of dynamite wired to his engine had gone off. That "accident" and a whole bumper crop of anti-labor sluggings, shootings and gaggings made Harlan's rich coal veins throb with miners' blood. Last year, the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee tried applying a tourniquet; but bloody Harlan proved hemophilic...