Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Union? Because they minister to the laboring classes, Labor wants social workers in its camp. C. L. O. is out to organize 50,000 of them. President Jacob Baker of C. L. O.'s United Federal Workers of America (Government employes' union) sent emissaries to Seattle with a message saying: "Unorganized, these [Government] workers present a danger to the labor movement. . . . They will be sympathetic to Labor or they will be hostile and there is no middle ground." Mr. Baker's organizers found the social workers at Seattle about equally divided between: 1) Elders who regarded themselves...
This week Field Marshal Göring extended even further State control over labor. He empowered labor officials to fix maximum rates of pay for work of all kinds, thus clamped down on rising labor costs...
...Also approved was a plebiscite in which 1,000,000 members of the church will be polled in November on their attitude toward Government action for job security; Government ownership of utilities: labor organization; capitalism...
...Thomas. Since then similar schools have been opened at University of Wisconsin, in North Carolina, in Berkeley, Calif, and in Chicago. They are now associated with the Affiliated Schools for Workers. Bryn Mawr supplies buildings and helps plan the summer school. The teachers come from high schools and colleges. Labor unions, college girls, Y. W. C. A.s, settlement houses and alumnae contribute the scholarships, $250 for each girl. A committee scouts the country for likely students of 20 to 35, for whom the only requirements are a sixth-grade education, three years' working experience and enrollment in local study...
Directors of the school are Misses Marguerite Gilmore and Jean Carter. Stocky, blue-eyed Miss Gilmore, besides directing workers' education for the State of Illinois, has worked in factory towns herself. On the staff is a labor representative to interpret the students' questions to the faculty, explain the answers. This year the school will deal especially with the Wagner Act, Social Security, and what they mean to workers...