Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seniority. Southern leadership would be decimated, and the way of future measures like the recently enacted Wages-&-Hours Bill (see p. 9) would be greatly eased. Lacking the necessary cosmic powers, C. I. O. politicos last week proposed to accomplish the foregoing and more by an Act of Labor...
John L. Lewis' political implement, Labor's Non-Partisan League, published for the benefit of Labor voters a list of Congressmen coming up for renomination and re-election this year. Rated on this roster, chiefly by their votes on wage-hour control, were: A) aggressive friends of labor; B) passive friends of labor; C) borderliners whose fate might be decided by local circumstances; D) aggressive enemies of labor. Obviously this invitation to turn out the rascally Ds suited C.I.O.'s program of direct political action and tied in well with Administration strategy...
...nine Negroes accused, four were acquitted, four sentenced to long jail terms, one sentenced to death (TIME, April 20, 1931, et seq.). Last week Alabama justice yielded another inch. Governor Bibb Graves commuted the death sentence of Clarence Norris, now 25, to life imprisonment. In Manhattan, the International Labor Defense, which in 1933 brought in Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz to defend the Boys,* declared: "The boy is innocent. This doesn't close the case. We will go ahead until he and the four remaining boys are free...
...love the last two regimes to which it was subjected [those of Chancellors Dollfuss and Schuschnigg]. The new regime appeals very powerfully to the whole lower middle class and to a great part of the workers. . . . Under the new regime the proletariat has been rapidly absorbed into . . . the Arbeitsfront [labor front...
...telephone, printing presses. By senior year they had explored many fields that ordinary high-school students seldom know-Columbus slums. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., the position of women in Byzantine civilization, the motion picture industry, alchemy. They went to Detroit and New York City to study labor, industry and urban living...