Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Raymond Robbins, a noted social economist and an advocate of organized labor, will be the first speaker. On October 26, he will give an address entitled "The Next Step" which treats of the outlawry...
...year ago the annual convention, in Atlantic City (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.), with William Green, President, with Samuel Gompers gone, was as though without vitality. President Green showed himself wary, not one to alter or elaborate the philosophy of U. S. labor that Samuel Gompers formulated...
Religion. On the eve of the convention, the Detroit Board of Commerce sent a letter to Detroit church members. This letter urged that invitations to labor leaders to address congregations on the Sunday of the convention be withdrawn as inimical to local industries...
...been a long, smoldering wait for Governor Roland H. Hartley, but when he struck, he struck suddenly. Dr. Henry Suzzallo, the University President, had crossed his trail years ago, during the War, when he, Hartley, then a private citizen deep in timber operations, was having trouble with labor. The academician, as a member of the Labor Industries Board, had the audacity to suggest that timber operators put their crews on an eight-hour schedule, as in many another industry. In 1924, after Mr. Hartley's election and during his campaign for a superboard to manage all state education (instead...
...Steinway piano. She rode keen horses. The town band played at her parties and serenaded John Driscoll on his birthday; he had bought the bandsmen their silver instruments and when they played for him he treated with his best whiskey. He had wrung a great fortune out of contract labor in Missouri swamps...