Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor Party: The Labor group, led by English-born Thomas Johnston, has done much good work for the working classes. It is strictly constitutional in its methods, moderate in policy, and contains many able politicians. Until the advent of the Republicans, it occupied the extreme left benches and is, therefore, paradoxically, to be considered the radical party of the Free State...
Since De Valera's Fianna Fail is opposed in principle to accepting any ministry in the cabinet of a regime which they detest and hope to convert into a republic sooner or later observers thought last week that a coalition government headed by Tom Johnson, leader of the Labor Party, would have most chance to supplant President Cosgrave...
...gardens, pensions - and abolition of the twelve-hour day were policies embraced by Judge Gary before others forced them upon him. He read the times aright, saw that industry would be humanized and might better prosper by humanizing itself. In 1918 Judge Gary refused to receive Samuel Gompers resenting labor's attempt to unionize the steel industry for ends which the steel industry already had in view. A strike was called but failed. Judge Gary had proved himself as good a labor organizer as the unions had; again proved himself the next man's equal at improving...
...probably no class of people has been more consistently underfed throughout the ages than musicians. By way of compensation they have claimed the distinction of artistic martyrdom. It may be significant of a changing social order that U. S. musicians last week filed a brief with the Department of Labor for the right to be designated as "laborers in the field of music" rather than "artists...
...last analysis, it amounts to a problem in definition. What is an "artist"? The Labor Department holds that "a professional musician is properly regarded as a professional artist for the purpose of exemption." The Union would restrict the term "artist" to "one who is adept, has attained great knowledge and skill in the fine art known as music and who, as a vocation, practices that art for the advancement and welfare of mankind" (Paderewski, Kreisler, Ysaye, Toscanini...