Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report went far and wide through the press. Mr. Smith Wildman Brookhart, newly nominated for the Senate in Iowa (TIME, June 14), had made a speech to the Iowa Federation of Labor at Mason City. He was reported as having advocated...
...Earnings over and above the efforts of labor and the use of money should be turned back into the business, one-fourth of the profits to be kept to keep the business progressing and the remainder returned to the members in proportion to the amount of business transacted...
...There was nothing new in my Mason City speech. It was the formal speech on co-operatives I have been making for years at farm and labor gatherings. What I advocated was that 5% would be the proper limit of return on co-operative enterprises. Nothing was said about commercial business...
...report issued last week by the Ministry of Labor placed the number of miners unemployed as a result of the continued British coal strike (TIME...
...week saw the expiration of Premier Baldwin's time-limited offer of a coal subsidy to follow an agreement between the miners and owners. In the Commons, former Labor Premier Macdonald scathingly asked whether this offer had been intended as a bribe. Even this jibe did not deter Premier Baldwin from renewing his offer, this time without limit, in an effort to foster conciliation...