Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Casey is an animated gentleman of great intellect and vitality, whose service to the anthracite cause and labor as a whole is immeasurable. He was a "breaker-boy" at one time...
...Ford, who has long been held up by the Bolsheviks as the perfect example of the American capitalist and exploiter of labor, is to be permitted to practice his nefarious work in the midst of a socialistic regime, it will be difficult for the Russians to deny much longer that Socialism is not entirely practical. Already the peasants have been granted practical ownership of their farms and produce, and now that its principles are to be abandoned in the factories as well, little remains but a few catchwords of Karl Marx and a rapidly fading shadow of that Utopia...
...most artists, and reverence and love of this art produced whole races of instrumentalists and singers. But in America the perfect type of sissy was conceived as a long-haired esthete carrying a violin. For some reason good music was not native to this soil, and long years of labor by a few who appreciated it have been needed to rouse the nation from its apathy. America still is far from being musically cultivated, but it is no longer an ignoramus among nations in this art, and whatever distance it has come on the road toward understanding the significance...
When asked to be more explicit in regard to the grievances of the commercial mentors which he represents, Dean Donham readily replied, "It is the old grievance of capital and labor," he said smiling. "We across the river suddenly realized that Capital was giving us no support. Big Business was almost completely ignoring one of the largest academic plants in the country and was shirking duty in the subsidy of its operating expenses. It is true that there have been some minor gestures, as witness the Weeks Bridge, but they can only be called casual pittances flung to the Business...
...loss of pay and the introduction of many new workers unsympathetic towards the I. W. W. But the largest operator, President J. F. Welborn of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., frankly admitted the injury done his own interests when he estimated that the four-month disturbance had cost Labor $3,000,000, railroads $4,000,000, affiliated industries $1,000,000 and Colorado's operators $10,000,000, not to mention markets which it would take years to recapture...