Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once again appears willing to caper at the Administration's whistle. It could have chosen a much more propitious time than now when the Wage and Hours Bill is pending. From the sociological standpoint, the desire of this bill to aid those two million unfortunates working under sub-standard labor conditions is commendable. From the economic standpoint, it is a continuation of an unwise wage policy based on faulty economic reasoning which has been pursued by the last two administrations...
WASHINGTON--The Supreme Court today ruled that employers may not dis-criminate against union workers in reinstating employees after a strike in a decision which heartened the National Labor Relations Board in its legal battle with the Ford Motor Co., The Ru-public Steel Corp., and other companies. In a session in which labor verdicts rivaled in importance the court's decision to review the entire TVA controvery. the highest tribunal found the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company guilty of discriminating against five telegraphers and validated the Roards's order that they must be reiuntated with back...
Charging "the alleged liberals who guide the destinies of Harvard" with trying to "slip something over on their employees," kenneth Taylor, Secretary-Treasurer of the State Labor Relations Board, last night challenged President Conant to an open discussion on what was best for the University' workers...
Pointing out that the University had broken labor laws in the time of President Lowell, Robert H. Everett, A. F. of L. organizer, said he was "more convinced than ever" that Harvard was again breaking the law, this time by fostering a company union...
...figure of Critic Boyd, his features hidden in shadows, as he faced some indistinguishable framed object on the studio wall and began his review by exclaiming nervously, "Ah, Johann Gutenberg!" Intermittently photographs from the book were flashed on the screen: pictures of the unemployed, of banks, of labor-saving machinery. Some were clear, some blurred, a few merely smears and jagged lines. When Critic Boyd announced solemnly that the greatest show on earth properly began with man, television illustrated the observation with a mysterious shapeless blob of shadow that could not by any stretch of the imagination be called...