Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Herbert Smith of the British Miners' Federation revealed last week that $4,000,000 (?822,634) had been contributed to British strike funds by Russian labor. Said he: "Thank God there is some Christianity in Russia T A tenth of all we have paid out to relieve the miners has come from Moscow...
Reaction. The cry started a month ago will continue a long time. In Texas, growers have already started to plow partly picked cotton fields for the sowing of fall small grains. Discouraged tenant farmers throughout the South are abandoning unpicked cotton for paying jobs in towns and cities. Transient labor is scarce. There are few gleaners...
...soft coal is the continuing British coal strike. Four million tons of U. S. coal have been going to Great Britain.* But equally important is the domestic fear of a strike. Because of this nervous demand employers of non-union miners are finding some trouble in getting sufficient labor. Thus last week the open shop Pittsburgh Coal Co., a Mellon family holding company, offered increased wages. Higher wage scales were posted at many another mine...
...their own inertia-in this case, three sisters. They will go to Moscow, where there is life. They will go. But they never do. They just relapse into the tragic, supine, half-dead repose fastened upon them by their traditional weakness. Meanwhile peasant bipod, reddened by centuries of labor, filters in with the drops of dying blue, picks up the burdens-and the authority-that the grand folk slough off. Soon the peasants will be the grand folk...
...Congregational church became rather a Unitarian church, but attendance was still obligatory until Charles W. Eliot became president of Harvard in 1869 and began the university's modern age. Dr. Eliot did not believe in attendance at religious services under compulsion; but here, as elsewhere, he had to labor against a powerful tradition, and it was not till the 250th anniversary of the university, in 1886, that chapel attendance was made voluntary...