Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, in England to explore industrial conditions for Franklin Roosevelt, replied last week to a British query on his third-term intentions...
...Secretary Ickes announced that all the Public Works projects he is setting afoot will ultimately provide $1,001,200,000 worth of building material orders, 14,225,000 man-months of labor, $515,600,000 in direct wages...
...problems of the middle class and then to DO SOMETHING. What Cliff Knoble proposed to do, first for Detroit and then for other localities, he did not make clear. But the things about which he proposed to do something were made plain: 1) taxes, State and Federal; 2) labor disputes. Major emphasis was on taxation (in an M. C. A. pamphlet, eight of 15 listed objectives deal with reducing Michigan and Federal taxes and expenditures). Excerpts...
...your tax money that is going to pay these WPA workers? And if it is, what are you getting for your money? ... A square deal for both Capital and Labor-the equalization of responsibility -compulsory arbitration-and the outlawing of 'wildcat' and 'sitdown' strikes. In other words, industrial peace through cooperation...
...something happened. To this day Grant believes that Diaz was a good president for Mexico, whose excesses, such as shooting arrested men without trial, were necessary to suppress lawlessness. A "renegade labor-union cast-off" tried to organize the miners, but older workmen, working with Grant's friend, the chief of police, soon ran him off. Why, then, did so many of the miners join Pancho Villa? Why did a fault-finding stockholder in the U. S. protest that there were too many sons, sons-in-law, nephews and brothers-in-law on the payroll? Why did a greenhorn...