Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amended and passed the $89,000,000 appropriations bill for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, Labor; sent it back to the House for conference...
...hordes of crooks and thugs who, finding the alcohol and dope industries too highly organized to be profitable or even safe in Chicago, had turned to such bold badness as the "union racket"- a simple strongarm game, played with lead pipes and sawed-off shotguns, where the crooks formed "labor unions" of junk men, fish dealers, tailors, cobblers or other defenseless professionals, and shot or clubbed any who refused to join and pay "dues...
Leaders & Spokesmen: 1) For Capital, Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, towering manufacturer of industrial chemicals, father of the present Conference, into which he has mustered the active heads of 159 major British corporations; 2) For Labor, Mr. Ben Turner, jovial, moderate President of the British Trades Union Congress, a body so potent that it wrought the great British General Strike (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926), estimated to have cost the Empire not less than...
...usual when British Labor and Capital try to get together, they were baited, last week, by fiery Communist "Emperor" A. J. Cook, recent active generalissimo of the collapsed General Strike. He, discredited, little heeded, stormed: "An absolute farce! . . . The employers want us to sign a new creed of copartnership, co-operation and good-will forever. It is not economics they want, but theology and a doxology...
...frail, delicate, serious, Lord Halifax could read in the encyclical the defeat of a lifetime's labor. It had been his idea, as it was the idea of many English high-churchmen and laymen, that the Church of England, which does not recognize itself as protestant in the sense for example of Lutheran, Methodist, or Presbyterian Churches, might be ready to amalgamate itself with the Roman Church. Certainly, for the last century, some members of the Anglican Church have tended more and more to recognize certain Roman Catholic tenets. At the Lambeth Conference, in 1920, English clergymen stated their willingness...