Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great proportion of the rank & file in both A. F. of L. and C. I. O., the war in U. S. Labor is almost as remote as the one in China. On the Pacific Coast, in Michigan, Iowa, Texas, in many and many a local labor federation, C. I. O. and A. F. of L. unionists still work together for their common aims while their testy big shots snarl in the headlines. Last week this harmony had reached such proportions as to demand the attention of A. F. of L.'s national spokesman...
...preponderance of union newspapers in and out of A. F. of L. which denounce his proposed Wagner Act amendments. In broadsides to all State and city federations of A. F. of L. unions, he complained that C. I. O.'s American Newspaper Guild was seducing the impoverished Labor press with fair words, paid space, cash contributions. Said he: ". . . Many of these so-called A. F. of L. publications have . . . ridiculed the position of the . . . Federation ... on important legislative matters. ... A situation of this kind is ... intolerable...
Meanwhile that incurable optimist, Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins, announced in Denver that Labor's warring leaders will also be at peace within a few months. John Lewis' declaration to the contrary last fortnight, said Miss Perkins, was "by no means a conclusive statement...
...eaters, so called because Bavarians suppose starving Italian field-hands steal and stew German cats). Every German woman was urged to go out on the land, help gather in the crops. It was estimated that at least 500,000 women of 60 years or more are doing farm labor in the Reich. Members of the Hitler Youth movement were commanded to volunteer their services. By drafting students, women, aliens, Nazis, with every available laborer under arms or building fortifications east or west, still hoped to gather in their vitally necessary harvest...
...four morning and four afternoon newspapers published in Manhattan all but two are conservative: the morning, tabloid Daily News and the evening Post. Last week, after six up-and-down years under Philadelphia Publisher J. David Stern (TIME, June 26), the Post got a new owner: the American Labor Party's City Councilman George Backer, whose liberalism is more profound than J. David Stern's and whose financial resources are greater. Young (36) Publisher Backer's first acts were to pay back, with interest, the 10% of their salaries the Post's staff members had been...