Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Statement. Chancellor Churchill declared publicly: "The Government would never have secured passage for the bill extending the hours of mine labor from seven to eight (TIME, July 12) had they known that the owners would thereupon refuse to discuss a national wage settlement. The Government never thought for a moment that opening the door* for district settlements meant shutting it in the face of a national settlement. We wish both doors to be open and settlements to be achieved through both...
History often pauses in the midst of its twisted centuries of labor; tosses off a neat little chapter in a few years...
Four years ago the leaders of the British Labor Party called upon Mr. Fyfe, asked him to do what he could with the then puny Laborite Daily Herald. His success in making that paper the outstanding Labor organ and one of the largest newspapers of Britain has been too often touted to need recapitulation...
Naturally the hard-headed brethren of Wall Street welcomed this superCapitalist defi to Labor, promptly showed their approval of and confidence in the new decrees by buying so many lire that the price rose half a cent...
Last July, certain directors of labor banks, and other shrewd men of no labor relations at all, took over this company with the ingenious intent of selling these real estate bonds to labor men (TIME, July 12). At the time the "success of such trading on reputation was doubtful...