Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...claim your newsmagazine to be nonpartisan. Why then labor to insult President Coolidge (June 20, pp. 6-7)? A bit of filth flung in 1924, and you have cherished it all this time t Is this news ? And is it not proper to infer therefrom that your claim to be non-partisan...
...other is getting it." President Lowell in his Baccalaureate Sermon to the graduating class in Appleton Chapel yesterday forsaw the possibility of such tragedy when he took for his text the pessimistic words of the Preacher and King of Jerusalem, "What profit hath a man of all his labor that he taketh under the sun?" But the President spoke well for the present as well, when he advised against future disappointment with a study of the nature of man's labor and the profit to be obtained therefrom...
...contrary as he pointed out a philosophical escape. Personal success need not turn to ashes and bitter brew if only regarded as the means to a greater end. We need not fall back completely on the scant solace which comes with the final realization that happiness accompanied the labor itself and not the material fruits of the labor, that we must enjoy in retrospect...
Members of the House of Commons cried "Hear, Hear!" approvingly last week as Minister of Labor Sir Arthur Herbert Steel-Maitland declared: "I believe it is a fact that there are more workers unemployed in the U. S. than in Great Britain. . . . Although no official statistics on the subject of unemployment in the U. S. are issued by the U. S. Government, it appears to be generally accepted by those competent to form an opinion that out of 12,000,000 workers engaged in manufacturing and industry in the U. S. 1,500,000 are unemployed. . . . Our own unemployment figure...
...Washington, Acting Commissioner of Labor Statistics Charles E. Baldwin declared: "We [the U. S. Department of Labor] do not know and nobody knows how many persons there are out of employment [in the U. S.]." Mr. Baldwin explained that the Bureau of Labor Statistics computes monthly "an unemployment index which shows the trend of employment, that is, whether the number employed is increasing or decreasing." The latest (April) report of this nature by the Department of Labor declares: "The level of employment in April, 1927 was 2.4% lower than in April, 1926, and pay roll totals were .6% lower...