Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, & colleagues, spent an active week and filled many headlines...
...with an interview at the fountainhead of executive intervention, the White House, where President Green & colleagues set forth the three great grievances of striking bituminous coal-miners-police brutality, suppression by injunction and "gigantic conspiracies" by the Interests (railroads, power companies, banks) to depress coal prices and crush union labor (TIME, Nov. 28). They asked President Coolidge to call a conference of miners and operators; and to suggest that Congress investigate police strikebreaking, injunctions, conspiracies...
President Coolidge was sympathetic but hesitant. He did not appear to have the soft coal situation at his executive fingertips. He said he would consult Secretary of Labor Davis and urged his callers to do likewise. He said he could not very well call a conference of Labor and operators without the latter signifying their willingness. He lacked authority to intervene unasked...
Atlanta, with more than 870 national corporations with branch plants, warehouses or sales offices there, was delighted. The Industrial Bureau advertised: "Here is one location they [transplanted concerns] found abundant raw materials. The finest type of labor in the world-willing, intelligent Anglo-Saxons. Plentiful plant sites. Ample hydro-electric power. Lower building costs. Invigorating climate, permitting efficient, year-round production . . . 8 great railroad systems, with 15 main lines...
...unalloyed the girl students too, stout hearted. . . scrimp and save and slave for the $250 tuition and living expenses. . . cheapest charge for a bachelor's degree in Arkansas. The dormitory must be completed; the walls are up the boys laid the foundation and did all the common labor. . . $115,000 will finish the interior. . .contractors need money...