Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight against Russian admittance was British Delegate Sir Walter Citrine, president of Iftu's executive. In the minority were delegates from Leftist Spain. Mexico and France. Most disappointed was French Trade Union Leader Léon Jouhaux, who last November traveled to Moscow, there negotiated with Soviet Labor Leader Solomon Lozovsky the conditions under which Soviet workers would enter the Iftu...
...illustrated campaign was evident at the ballot box last week when the United Party rollicked over not only the Nationalists but also over the Anglophile Dominionites and the radical Laborites. The standing in the new House of Assembly will be: United Party, 111; Nationalist, 27; Dominion, 8; Labor, 3; Socialist...
...program. Nine months ago he resigned in a huff. With cries of "Fascist" from Mexican Laborites and left-wingers ringing in his ears, the old "Bull of Potosí" waddled off to his great Las Palomas hacienda. From there he continued to block organization drives of the Leftist CTM labor union in his State, permitted Catholic schools to continue, defiantly hung on to his huge land holdings and held up Government agrarian engineers in their efforts to slice up Potosí estates into communal ejidos...
...editors expect they will soon need a reporter. The appearance of a paid editorial employe will provide Nutmegman Broun with a delicate problem. As Guild President, he might logically be expected to urge the reporter to join the C. I. O. But Labor Leader Broun would also be the reporter's employer and if he did so he would violate the National Labor Relations Act. In the New York World-Telegram recently Cartoonist Will B. Johnstone limned this dilemma...
...cream and fertilizers made more jobs in April, as business moved to satisfy the seasonal demands of gullets and gardens. But seasonal increases in nonagricultural fields fell far short of normal April figures, according to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins last week. Madam Secretary estimated that since fall, 3,000,000 U. S. workers have been laid off. Those who still have jobs are getting lighter pay envelopes than a year ago, although most hourly rates are unchanged since against union resistance it is easier to cut hours than rates. As usual in depressions, payrolls have dropped faster than jobs...