Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aside in favor of another gubernatorial candidate, possibly popular Bob Wagner. While Franklin Roosevelt's lieutenants pondered what would be the best political line-up to meet this unexpected situation in a key State, a snag arose. Executive Secretary Alex Rose of New York's young American Labor Party, which cast almost 300,000 highly welcome Roosevelt votes in 1936, indicated that his party would not form a coalition with the Democratic (or any other) ticket unless A. L. P. could pick the nominee for one Senator and for lieutenant governor. For Senator, said Mr. Rose, his party...
...with a $140,000,000 appropriation, REA hopes to triple its loans and its importance. REA's dynamo is Administrator John Michael Carmody, a Pennsylvanian who went to the New Deal as chief engineer for the Civil Works Administration, was one of the early members of the National Labor Relations Board. Thin-thatched, energetic Administrator Carmody can be tough on occasion, especially when he discovers that private utility companies have built "spite lines...
This remarkable unemployment reduction has been achieved by methods strongly condemned by many liberal critics: 1) Replacement of women by men in many fields of work; 2) vast armament and building programs; 3) establishment of compulsory labor camps in which every young man must serve six months before beginning two years' service in the army; 4) growth of Nazi bureaucracy needing more Government employes to handle the complexities and restrictions of German...
Last week Germany showed that she had overplayed her unemployment solution, had actually created a labor shortage. Scheduled for immediate execution under the Four-Year Plan is the building of the Hermann Göring Iron Works, the production of cheap Volkswagen automobiles promised by Führer Hitler, the rebuilding of Berlin and Munich according to the Fuhrer's ambitious schemes. To provide labor for these and other purely Government projects, Field Marshal Göring, Four-Year Plan Commissioner, decreed a sensational labor conscription...
Beginning July 1, all "State members"-which includes Jews and other minorities-will be subjected to a draft compelling them to serve on any assigned job, commanded by the Reich Institute for Labor Placement & Unemployment Insurance. This drastic decree will be applied to all regardless of race, sex or occupation. While Nazi authorities gave only vague hints as to the true meaning of the labor draft law, they did deny that it was a war measure. To the disenfranchised, persecuted Jews the decree meant they would soon be working on Führer Hitler's projects. Perhaps the best...