Word: laborers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...linoleum producer; rock-ribbed John Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil Co., financial angel of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania; long-nosed Lammot du Pont, beardless patriarch of the U. S.'s most famed family industry; Du Pont-in-law Donaldson Brown, vice chairman, financial and labor policy man of General Motors; the retiring president of N. A. M., courtly Howard Coonley of Walworth Co., whose valve business has not been doing so well in spite of recovery; barrel-chested Utilitarian Wendell Lewis Willkie, foe of TVA; President Clarence Francis, able little-publicized business pundit, and Chairman Colby Mitchell...
...Heard Democratic Senator Wheeler attack the Wagner Labor Relations Act and come out for a balanced budget...
...restoring U. S. prosperity. Its prime points: reduction of Government regulation of industry to a reasonable basis; an end of Government pump-priming because it is a failure; recognition of the profit motive as an incentive to produce; a return to economy in Government expenditures; amendment of the National Labor Relations Act "to guarantee to employes real freedom in the selection of their representatives"; modification of the Securities Acts to encourage new capital investment...
...rail labor, Congressionally represented by shrewd Senator Burt Wheeler, is conceded Washington's No. 1 lobby. Notorious is its ability to send bills crashing through in the last few days of a session; formidable is its veto of any bill to reduce the number of rail jobs available for its dues-paying members...
WASHINGTON--The Congress of Industrial Organizations tonight recommended criminal penalties for Wagner Act violators, marking an important change of policy forward the Labor Relations Law and the National Labor Relations Board which administers...