Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Right Honorable Labor Members of Parliament lost their heads in a flush of rage last week, when the Conservative Government of Premier Stanley Baldwin introduced a long-threatened bill to curtail debate and force a vote within 16 days on the second reading of the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill (TIME, May 9).* This procedure, cloture, is so seldom employed in England that the Laborites puffed and huffed with indignation. Their leader, John Robert Clynes,† rose dark with wrath, declaring that the Opposition was being "insulted by the audacity of the Government" in proposing to cut short debate...
Onetime Premier James Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the British Labor party, had recovered sufficiently, last week, from his recent illness in Philadelphia to step aboard the Cunarder Berengaria at Manhattan, for the voyage home which would close his U. S. visit (TIME...
...Conference this year will as usual be featured by addresses by men, authorities in the fields of religion, labor, education, and international politics Among them are Professor K. F. Mather, H. P. Van Dusen, Henry Sloane Coffin and H. H. Tweedy. Forums will also be held on ten subjects which the Council believes to be of paramount importance today...
...moreover, under this sort of treatment that the Sacco-Vanzetti case is becoming obscured while winning notoriety. The case has already established public relations with the defects of the Massachusetts judicial system, the standard of integrity maintained in the district attorney's office, theories of evidence, and labor agitation. It remained for the New Republic to allege that there is also a racial question at stake...
...roam the seven seas. But rarely does he commit himself to the vegetation which was his wont. He appears to have reached the conclusion that there is no code which forbids him adding to his stock of knowledge in any other time besides winter. By travel, manual labor, diverse means, he can both busy himself and learn. Education is restricted neither to the classroom, nor the nine hibernal months, and the summer is assuming the position of a laboratory, an opportunity for instructive and sometimes remunerative field work...