Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumpus made it more doubtful than ever that, if & when Motorman Ford does sign a U. A. W. contract, the signature next to his will be Homer Martin's. For the split between Laborman Martin and his former colleagues had become an engagement of major importance in auto labor's bitter civil...
...make auto unions as well as auto manufacturers economically powerful. If U. A. W. can expand into aviation, glass, rubber, as John Lewis hopes, it will add still further to its power. Given leadership, U. A. W. might gain a dominance like that of the railroad brotherhoods in Labor's last generation...
...cooperation between the different levels of government." On behalf of the lowest governmental level, Budgeteer Meyers complained that city Relief bills are uncertain because WPA does not distinguish consistently between employables and unemployables. For Depression II he suggested a long-range program "by all levels of government, business, labor and industry." Main proposal: higher share to cities on State taxes on liquor, gasoline, automobiles, income, sales, inheritances. (The New Deal's long-range program for U. S. public finance is supposed to favor such tax-sharing with the Federal Government in return for Federal taxation of income from future...
...industry, had thus curtailed the State's tax revenues, injured the economic power and prestige of France, weakened the franc. Next, he rapped Capital for failing to install modern equipment needed in French factories and demanded that these investments be made now, simultaneously with increased working hours for Labor. Finally he promised to reduce taxation of industry to induce business to get going...
...Paris, the Daladier moves at once brought the resignations of Labor Minister Paul Ramadier and Public Works Minister Ludovic Oscar Frossard. These two members of the Union Socialist-Republican Party were promptly replaced by the Premier with two other members of their party, new Labor Minister Charles Pomaret and new Public Works Minister Anatole de Monzie. Speculation at once began: would the Union Socialists read Pomaret and de Monzie out of its ranks for standing with Daladier...