Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minister of Labor Albert Sarraut...
...England manufacturers had begun this cutlass-heaving, had grown potent - in a commercial way. Southern manufacturers, as they set themselves up along the Atlantic coastal plain, acquired the same tactics. This became all the easier when the New Englanders commenced filtering south for the sake of the cheap mountain labor of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama. And last week these bitter competitors were bid to an agape, a love feast. As they assembled at the Biltmore, they scarcely knew what to expect...
...prepare for the mobilization of the industry in national emergencies. Its practical purpose is to overcome "the lack of co-operation which has led to fatal price cutting and cut-throat competition." It purports specifically to exclude from its activities legislative and political questions such as tariff and labor problems...
...Guerre. So, although he had sacrificed his citizenship and the U. S. Government had no recourse against any decision it might render, and though the law of the Legion is unremitting, the courts martial considered it advisable to sentence defiant Deserter Doty to but eight years at hard labor. "His record of bravery...
That is why Defiant Doty shrugged his shoulders at the court, received the sentence with, "Well, that's tough." For eight years the handsome legionnaire will sweat at hard labor building roads through Africa, not at all resembling the reckless swashbuckler who once fought for France; unless, perhaps, the Legion feels another little tug from Tennessee...