Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consciousness of economic well-being, backed by a pioneer spirit of economic enterprise is the foundation of present American prosperity, according to Kenneth Lindsay, Labor member of the English Parliament, who visited the University recently to speak at the Liberal Club...
...stop to think about economic evils and depressions," Mr. Lindsay told a CRIMSON representative, "they get to work to try to remedy them." A member of the Oxford University debating team that defeated the University speakers three years ago. Mr. Lindsay is now in this country studying labor conditions...
...rise of the Labor movement in England, in contrast to its absence in America, is due to the reversed conditions that obtain in the British Isles. Politics absorb most of the leaders, having great industries to shift for themselves. The coal-mining industry, that is one of the largest in England has been almost totally paralyzed by the rise in the development of water power and its use in manufacturing. The poverty in some of the coal districts is terrifying and almost unbelievable. In the southern part of Wales people are living on crusts of bread, amid conditions of filth...
...praise of a man whose knowledge of the law and understanding of the "rights of man" is unsurpassed. In 1916 President Wilson appointed him to the Supreme Court in the face of biting criticism. People said: "Yes, he is brilliant, but he is biased. We do not want prejudiced labor advocates in the Supreme Court...
Employes will get full pay for these holidays: Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day; half pay "for Election Day; nothing for Passover, Rosh Hashonah, Yom Kippur or Columbus...