Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal is a game between Capital & Labor with the Government dealing and at the same time raking in the "kitty." The kitty is fast assuming the proportions of a full grown pussy cat. If the players keep at it long enough they will both be broke...
Perhaps the New Deal might be defined as bewildered idealism, leftish in objectives, rightish in methods, misunderstood by liberals, misused by conservatives, mistrusted by businessmen-but still relied upon reluctantly by indebted farmers, doubtfully by organized labor, helplessly by the unemployed, and hopefully by bewildered idealists...
Whether the American Newspaper Guild was to be a labor union or a professional society was settled at its first convention, in St. Paul in 1934. The delegates realistically conceived the reporter as a creature of wages, hours and working conditions, bluntly declared that they wanted more, fewer and better, respectively. By the time its fifth annual convention met last week in Toronto,* the Guild was beyond all doubt a labor union. More than that: It was one of the most successful of the C.I.O.'s affiliates (to Chairman John L. Lewis, its record was "magnificent"); its struggle first...
...signing of 40 contracts since the 1937 convention made collective bargaining the Guild's most successful activity of the year. In all its previous history, the Guild had made only 37 contracts. In two respects, Guild agreements are rare in labor practice...
...labor has begun, The woods with music ring...