Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...businessmen and Seattle politicians. Evidence that Boss Beck might be in a decline appeared early this year, when in Seattle's elections droves of A. F. of L. voters deserted to C. I. O. candidates. The fact that middle-of-the-road Mayor Arthur B. Langlie defeated both labor rivals did not help Dave Beck, did not stop the C. I. O. invasion of his domain. Last winter, Dave Beck's Oregon lieutenant, Portland Teamster Al Rosser, and some 100 henchmen were rounded up, indicted for crimes varying from bombing to arson. Last week, Rosser awaited sentence...
Recent events set Dave Beck thinking. The results: 1) He suggested to the Washington State Federation of Labor that A. F. of L. and C. I. O. might do well to make peace, the better to fight their common enemies. 2) He disclosed that by diet and exercise he has taken off 44 Ib. in three months, has got down to a fit 170, the better to fight his enemies. Encased in heavy pants, rubber vest, rubber coat, two sweaters, he sweats his way around the University of Washington track every morning at 6 o'clock , flexes the Beck...
...helped foster the Prohibition Amendment and the Volstead Act. He had been a paid speaker for the Anti-Saloon League, but in 1928, when drink returned to popularity, he stumped for Al Smith, later helped write the 21st (Repeal) Amendment. Now he even takes a toddy himself. Labor knows him as one of its early champions, but he voted for coal and oil tariffs before the New Deal made Business unfashionable...
...Welfare. Aided by largesse from Washington, he balanced his budget, attacked and refunded the $28,000,000 State debt so that next year it will be all gone. He ended company police in the coal mines, cleaned up old State prisons. He got Kentucky to ratify the Child Labor amendment to the U. S. Constitution...
...most notable editorial dis tinction embraces a wider scope. With unabashed possessiveness, P. I. has labeled the modern U. S. business world "the advertiser system." The essential of this system is a realization of the community of interest between capital and labor. In practical terms this would mean an unfailing flow of purchasing power to the consumer which would enable him to buy the goods of mass production. In its first issue, July 15, 1888, P. I. insisted on the "mutuality of dependence'' between capital and labor which "cannot be put to mutually beneficial use unless there...