Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protects most of its manufactured products by tariff. Protection means keeping prices and wages up. Thus farmers must buy their clothes, building materials, labor, cosmetics, etc., in a protected market, although they must sell in an unprotected market...
...Child Labor Tax Case," Professor Yeomans, Government 19, Harvard...
...Debated and passed appropriation bills for Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, Labor. (Bills went to the Senate...
...that you remove your carcasses without the door." John Llewellyn Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, said that at a convention years ago. He was maledicting radicals, William Z. Foster in particular. Typically of the U. S. labor movement, great-faced Mr. Lewis can talk better against radicals than he can for or against anything else. Since Bolshevism first entered the limited vocabulary of the average citizens (circa 1919), there has never been a convention of organized labor in which it was not denounced. Better that a U. S. labor leader should have his face covered with mud than...
Early last week a labor leader, John Brophy, came, one of more than 1,000 delegates, to Indianapolis, headquarters of the U. M. W. He is not a Communist. It is even doubtful whether he could be ranked as a Socialist. But he is the perpetual opposition candidate for President of the U. M. W. against Mr. Lewis. And hanging metaphorically to his coattail was one Powers Hapgood, nephew of Norman Hapgood, onetime Hearstling. Powers Hapgood graduated from Harvard in 1921* and is a Socialist. He may be a Communist. In a hotel lobby some Lewis men hit him with...