Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Counsel Joseph Padway. Last February in Madison, Wis., Mr. Padway bellowed as though he himself were on the horns. The Legislature of his home State, in step with the rightward trend of U. S. politics, was considering bills to amend Wisconsin's famed, liberal State Labor Code of 1931 and its Little Wagner Act of 1937, which Joe Padway helped to draft. Having yet to emasculate Mr. Padway's State Labor Relations Act, Wisconsin's newly conservative Legislature last week made over the Labor Code, curtailed the right to strike or picket, and reopened...
...Padway was too busy in Washington to bellow last week. He was hard at work for A. F. of L., goring the National Labor Relations...
Like Thomas Cowan, "Buck" Kester once had a conservative Presbyterian charge (in West Virginia), left it and Presbyterianism together. Now a Congregationalist, he busies himself with lecturing, organizing labor, and escaping from Southern towns which dislike agitators. Once he avoided being lynched by crawling on his belly for a quarter-mile to escape from a Florida town. He explained: ". . . There was nothing to be gained by staying and I was scared." Against the likes of "Buck" Kester, Arkansas and Mississippi planters protested last February, publicly appealing to Southern churches "not to make their tenants and sharecroppers class-conscious...
Grim, grey-haired Dr. Bessie R. Burchett, a high-school Latin teacher in Philadelphia, mortally fears Jews, radicals, labor leaders. To defend herself, she used to carry two guns, a six-shooter in her handbag, an automatic strapped to her leg under her skirt. Once she brandished a pistol in a newsman's face, declared: "Those Communists will never take me alive." Disarmed by the Board of Education, she hired two bodyguards, scattered scarehead pamphlets by the thousands, tried to break up meetings of "Reds," invited teachers to join an "American National Socialist Party." Last week her pupils...
Since then, business management has found itself more often than not in high disrepute with the Government, with Labor and with the public.* And unable to rationalize the animosity any other way, it has concluded that being in the dog-house is largely the result of failure to present its case successfully to the public...