Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Shipstead sees the Farmer-Labor party dwindling around him; he is fast becoming a man without a party. Perhaps his next move will be to embrace Republicanism in name-but never in principle...
...yearly operating expenses of those lines and deprived investors of their mete of profits. Their decision (it went into effect Dec. 1) was the first made under the Watson-Parker Railroad Act, and, although obedience by employers and workers is optional, they have set a precedent for labor arguments. This Act, passed last year, provides a code duello for railroaders, every nicety of which the factors of this case followed meticulously. Thus a year ago, the conductors and trainmen notified their employers that they wanted a 19% increase in pay-$38,000,000. "But no! we can't afford...
...Attorney General in contempt of court when newspapers a few months old show that the charge was one of conspiracy to defraud the United States? Who is M. A. Dangherty? What did he have to do with King? Of course, such examples portray the absence of that minimum of labor and keenness that should typity a reporter. But more, they could not have been made by one with some conception of judicial procedure and current events. To such a person, with only the elements of a technical training, the account would have smacked more of adventures in a Lewis Carroll...
...letter of the Secretary of Labor, Subscriber James J. Davis, follows: My dear Mr. Leech...
...thing is certain, there is nothing to view with alarm in the immigration statistics for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, announced last week by Secretary of Labor James J. Davis. Since the passage of the Immigration Quota Law of 1924, which assigned a definite quota to the countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, it makes little difference in the alien population of the U. S. whether or not there is a bad potato crop in Ireland or a revolution in Hungary. Immigration has become a standpat, almost mechanical phenomenon. Compare the figures for the last two years...