Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strangely enough, this onetime Britisher with the flippant mustache and the magnate's look is such a good friend of labor that in 1922 when the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. tried to oust him from management, the employes bought sufficient stock with their savings to keep him in poWer. Said a motorman: "Mr. Mitten is just an ordinary man with extraordinary common sense...
...Following the line of P. R. T. experiment, if the railroads and all of their men would earnestly and collectively devote themselves to economic accomplishment, the savings would more than equal one-half present labor cost. If, as a condition of this co-operative effort, proportionate shares of the resultant added profits were reflected in lower rates to the public, in added profits to the owners, and a fair participation to the employes, the men, by investing this added wage en bloc through their trustees, could within ten years acquire by purchase in the open market a controlling interest...
...reservation to a political boom. Yet when such a peculiar case, such a worthy one as that of Summer-field Baldwin comes to the notice of this paper, traditions fall by the wayside and all is forgotten but a definite desire to see success crown the efforts of hard laboring humanity. For Mr. Baldwin is hardlaboring. There can be little question of that. His very writing proves it. In the excerpts from his article, "The Next President of Harvard--A Prediction", published in the Transcript of yesterday one discovers the hard labor of love. He wants the Presidency. That...
Denial of a new trial was handed down last May. But, eloquent Boston lawyer William G. Thompson, counsel for Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti, was in no mood to toss aside lightly his six years' labor, particularly when he still holds two powerful items of evidence...
Died. Mrs. Esther Nicholls Davis, 74, mother of Secretary of Labor James J. Davis; at Sharon, Pa. She had seen James rise from a puddler's assistant in the iron works to Cabinet rank. Following an old Welsh custom, and in accord with her wish, Mrs. Davis's four sons, James, Walter, Davis, Samuel, and a grandson were pallbearers...