Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of California's most substantial citizens stood behind two labor petitions that made the biggest news, promised the bitterest November fights. Nominally sponsored by an organization known as the Women of the Pacific, but advertised in a daily front-page box by the potent Los Angeles Times, was a law providing for compulsory incorporation of unions, publicity of union finances, disqualification from union office of all noncitizens (i. e., Maritime Boss Harry Bridges), civil suits against unions for strike damages, jail sentences up to ten years for disobedient union officers. This proposal has a companion piece aimed...
...among the lately lionized workers of the U. S. is the white-collar man. Because organized Labor long accepted his view that he was not of the overalled proletariat, he could, even two years ago, hardly have found a union had he wanted to. Since then C.I.O's top white-collar union, United Office & Professional Workers of America has boomed from 6.000 to 45,000 members...
...union heads chose industrial insurance rather than ordinary life, fire, etc., because they thought industrial agents would have more grievances, would be more amenable to union advances. The agents shortly verified this premise. In affidavits submitted to NLRB and New York State Labor Relations Board, in testimony before a New York legislative committee, they declared themselves to be pitifully chivvied, hounded into hounding impoverished clients. A Metropolitan agent in New York City, Benjamin Klein, testified that his district manager punished him for lagging sales by making him don a dunce cap inscribed, "I am lousy, I am a louse," required...
...pinch Metropolitan could get along without most of them. Last February, Mr. Lincoln declared he would never truckle to any organization which did not represent his 29,000,000 policyholders. On a fairly peaceful basis with Prudential, I.I.A.U. filed a complaint against Metropolitan with the New York State Labor Relations Board, against John Hancock with NLRB...
...disliked Zinoviev, despised cynical Radek, whom she calls a vulgar politician, and distrusted Trotsky's ambition. As for Stalin, she says he was so little known in 1919 that nobody had any attitude toward him. Her version of Bolshevik history is that Lenin employed Zinoviev to split the labor movement of other countries by all manner of intrigue, that such methods became habitual, were employed by Trotsky as much as by Stalin, led to recent Russian trials. Although Angelica Balabanoff has not lost her faith in Socialism, believes that "the international labor movement can be built again," her disappointments...