Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Immigration. Late in April (TIME, May 2) the U. S. Department of Labor issued General Order 86 which, among other provisions, classed naturalized but foreign-born Canadians as quota-immigrants, ruled that after Jan. 1, 1928, they could enter the U. S. only by securing admission under the quota given their country of birth. In other words, a Canadian citizen born in London would stand the same chance of getting into the U. S. as would a British citizen born in London and still living there. It should be added, however, that Canadians, even though foreign born, who have been...
Thus opened the Flood Control Conference, called by Mayors Thompson of Chicago, O'Keefe of New Orleans and Miller of St. Louis, but with Mayor Thompson the dominant spirit. Seven U. S. Senators and two Cabinet members (Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of War and James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor) were present; so were Mayors from many a Mississippi Valley city; so was onetime U. S. Senator William Lorimer, once barred from the Senate after an investigation of his campaign expenditures; so was many another notable...
...agent in charge of this subversive activity told in early letters how "choice of the men was carefully made, preference being given to Negroes, Hindus and other oppressed nationals." In later correspondence these "oppressed nationals" were declared to have turned out to be "lazy swine . . . the refuse of the Labor Party . . . slackers and bad workers who drank or left the ships...
...vain Laborites tried to delay the break. Their leader, onetime Premier James Ramsay MacDonald, was still so weak (on his arrival from the U. S. last week) that he could not address the House, but merely hobbled in using a cane. Other Laborites, marshaled by Deputy Chairman of the Labor Party John Robert Clynes, spoke, but under the heavy drawback that they feared to seem to take the part of "Bolsheviks," "Reds...
James John Davis (U. S. Secretary of Labor) addressed graduating high-school students at Follansbee, W. Va., where he once worked in a steel mill. He declared that because of his love for the "the romance of steel he would return to his old job-but for being a member of the Cabinet...