Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Labor Relations] Board has given an insurgent group the rights of belligerents, a privilege accorded in international affairs only after careful deliberation and full consideration of its grave consequences," A. F. of L.'s monthly American Federationist complained this week. "Every agency of government that gives status to the C. I. O. gives the same recognition...
...that it wants nothing less than an amendment to derive C. I. O. of a place on NLRB ballots. Said A. F. of L.'s practical editorialist: "Surely this [C. I. O. recognition] is . . . union development under Government patronage. Progressive legislation and practical democracy depend upon a united labor movement. Whatever groups or agencies give aid to insurgency within our movement defeat these purposes...
With some hope of salvaging its industry, the Association of American Railroads three months ago voted a 15% wage cut effective July 1 (TIME, May 9). But so complex is the machinery provided by the Railway Labor Act that the A. A. R. realized it would take several months of bickering to put through the cut. Last week the industry got a taste of what might happen in the meantime. Rutland Railroad Co. (407 miles of track mostly in Vermont), which has lost $2,000,000 since 1931, went into receivership two months ago and Federal Judge Harland B. Howe...
...court cannot reduce salaries or wages-the railroad is too poverty-stricken to engage in a strike or a quarrel of any kind or wait for the Labor Board to decide what the wages shall be ... the decision must be theirs [the employes']. . . ." Simultaneously Judge Howe reversed his earlier stand, allowed creditors to sue. The ink was scarcely dry on his ruling when three banks (Central Hanover Bank and Trust Co., United States Trust Co. of New York, Old Colony Trust Co.) filed foreclosures on mortgages involving $9,250,000. This week Judge Howe is meeting with "all persons...
...Labor (Wed. 8 p.m. CBS) discussed by Professor Lyman Bryson's dinner guests: Capitalist Apologist George E. Sokolsky, Workers Education Bureau Head Spencer Miller, WPA Teacher Gladys Poppe, an anonymous mechanic...