Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last time Alexander Fell Whitney was heard of, John Lewis nominated him to head up U. S. Labor when & if C. I. O. and A. F. of L. reunite. Last week in Cleveland able, white-topped Mr. Whitney showed how he runs his own Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen...
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York has in the course of his checkered career been by turns a Republican and a Fusionite, a standard bearer of the American Labor Party. He is also a good friend of the New Deal and has said he would take the Democratic nomination for President if it were offered. Rumor recently whispered that Thomas Gardiner Corcoran was advising him on ways & means of controlling his State's delegation to next year's Democratic Convention, possibly with a view to obtaining another nomination for Franklin Roosevelt, perhaps to offer New Deal support...
...slashing expenses, 40,000 surplus State Railway workers alone being fired. To leave the capital market free to industry, M. Reynaud promised that the Government would float no long-term loans until May. The recovery program pinched almost everyone, but the most anguished cries came from the labor unions, whose protestant general strike failed...
...from factory to factory, from village to city, in one of the great tidal movements of humanity that Tolstoy long ago described as the ceaseless wanderings of workmen over the earth. It ended uniform wages. Breakdowns, delays, confusions, led to experiments in management, industrial shock troopers, new incentives for labor, trials for sabotage. They resulted in celebrations at the dedications of power stations, but also in decrees that made factory managers liable to five years' imprisonment for inefficiency, led eventually to penalties on individual workmen for defective work...
...usual, priestlike and detached. To his office he goes every morning, hurling along in a 16-cylinder, seven-passenger Cadillac ("they cruise better when they're big") at speeds that make motorcycle policemen wince. But they make no arrests for Martin is the second largest employer of labor in the Baltimore industrial area. (The largest: Bethlehem Steel...