Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trade unionism, comprising more than 3,000,000 citizens sent its delegates to Los Angeles, Calif., for the 47th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor. First the delegates held departmental meetings-bricklayers to discuss bricklaying, machinists to talk machinery, etc. Then the Executive Council published its annual report, making the following points...
...Ware Labor Banks. Let the banking difficulties of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (TIME, July 4, Aug. 1) be a warning to Labor not to rush into banking schemes and investment companies until the whole subject of Labor banking for itself has been further explored and studied...
Statistics v. Strikes. The A. F. of L. has definitely adopted a new way of arguing for higher wages. It will "rely on facts rather than force." The strike will be held in abeyance as a weapon of last resort. Labor will compile, interpret and argue with figures first...
Politics. Let Labor's political action in 1924, when it endorsed La Follette because neither Democrats nor Republicans sought to please Labor, be a warning to the two big parties next year...
...Keynote struck by President Green was Gompersian enough- Labor will continue to fight "government by injunction...