Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these circumstances, Son Elmer Henry Maytag, president of the company, might have expected to escape labor trouble. But another name is also great in Jasper County. John Llewellyn Lewis was born 50 miles southwest of Newton 58 years ago, has in Jasper County much strength and one of the oldest locals of his United Mine Workers. So last year beneficent Maytag, caught in the union wash, signed a contract with C. I. O.'s United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America...
That contract having expired, and President Maytag having displeased his workers with a 10% wage cut, the company has been deep in labor trouble since May, was in deeper than ever last week. And so were the union and all Newton. After persuading 350 sit-inners to surrender the plant, Iowa's Governor Nelson G. Kraschel proposed that they accept the cut and return to work, was promptly turned down by the union. At that, Newton officialdom and business went into action. Businessmen asked Sheriff Earl Shields to recruit 1,000 deputies, encouraged a back-to-work movement which...
Last week, with the primary almost at hand (July 23), organized Labor belatedly was out to deflate Candidate O'Daniel's sudden, sensational boom by recalling how he sponsored an open-shop movement in Fort Worth. When his rivals taunted him with having paid no poll tax he re plied: "No politician in Texas is worth $1.75." When they called him a "carpet bagger" born in Ohio, raised in Kansas, he snapped back: "Sure. I moved to Texas 15 years ago . . . because I like Texas and want to live here." Awestruck observers predicted that...
...Spain's ever-diminishing Leftist side, political mortality of statesmen and generals was also high. Hard-boiled Socialist Francisco Largo Caballero, miscalled the "Spanish Lenin," first Minister of Labor under the Republic, former president of the Bricklayers' Union, was Premier for eight months, then was rudely ousted and forgotten. Former newsboy, ex-publisher Socialist Indalecio Prieto, builder of the Leftist People's Army, writer of brutally frank war communiques, for a year Minister of Defense, took his marching papers after the disastrous Aragon defeat last spring...
...Washington Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean announced that Labor Leader John L. Lewis would be invited to her daughter Evalyn's Newport debut party, if & when she has one. Said the owner of the famed $300,000 Hope Diamond: "I am devoted to Mr. Lewis. Years ago father taught me to be sympathetic to labor. If the rich don't recognize labor they'll bring their house of cards down upon their ears...