Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmers and these loans were to be repaid after the harvest. In order to keep the price of grain from rising and falling, the government was to buy up the grain when the prices began to fall and to sell it when prices rose. Instead of utilizing forced labor to carry out all the government's public works, he proposed to pay for this labor and levied an income tax to provide the treasury with the necessary funds...
...Elmer was in the workers' bad books because he: 1) refused all offers of compromise after the union had turned down an offer from him, and 2) demonstrated that the No. 1 industry in a small city is hard for labor to beat. Governor Kraschel was marked for union reprisal because he alternately played the union's and Maytag's games in his campaign for reelection, was consistently helpful to neither side, finally enforced the dismissal of twelve key men in Local 1116, United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America. Having curried labor votes by declaring martial...
...years ago, when Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and 114 other highly paid opera stars and concert artists formed the American Guild of Musical Artists and called it a labor union, humbler musicians had to laugh. But a year later, Baritone Tibbett's dress-collar union acquired an A. F. of L. charter and set about organizing opera from top to bottom, from $1s-a-week spear-carriers to prima donnas. Soon A. G. M. A. had negotiated agreements with Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl, the itinerant San Carlo Opera, the New York Hippodrome Opera, and most of the smaller...
What Are We to Do?, a study of the "rise and fall" of the British labor movement, is an urbane, inquisitional chronicle of missed opportunities, compromises, retreats, timidities, defeats. These all are traced to one original sin: The adoption by British labor of the "British" evolutionary, "substitute" socialism taught by the Fabians under Sydney Webb and George Bernard Shaw, instead of the "scientific socialism" of Karl Marx. The Fabians were not consciously malicious or cowardly, says Strachey, they were merely ignorant, got their socialist wires crossed because they did not know what a capitalist State was all about. They said...
...this thought which must, says Strachey, animate "The New Model" Labor Party of England and the U. S. At present, he confesses, The New Model is mostly in rough pencil sketch. But he is immensely confident in his expectation of shortly going into mass production. For the U. S., all that is now needed is to create a Labor Party, enroll a couple of hundred thousand more Communists to start the Labor Party off on the Left foot...