Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elbert H. Gary finds American industry returning to sound conditions. He recites that "Labor conditions are generally quiet Money is plentiful and interest...
This summary is evidence that labor has thrown no fright into the capitalists of the United States. This is undoubtedly well. If labor bas ends to attain, the less social scission provoked, the better. But there are these to whom a siesta of American labor agitation would not seem so salutary as it does no Mr. Gary. They are the people to whom the Passable strike is a revelation They are concerned in Mr. Gary's later and more controversial dicta...
...probable that the labor movement in America is really as static as the steel king suggests. Passaic argues otherwise. And it is men with more interest in the state of society than in particular profits who will be needed whenever the little and big crises arrive...
...trade unions are legally in an insecure position. Having broken contracts in order to engage in the orgy of sympathy, judges may decide that the associations are liable for the damage done their employers by the delay. If such a decision were made the financial power of labor would be crippled for years to come, a possibility jeopardizing the vast improvement of the working man's position...
More probable is it that the moderates will restrain the legal offensive against labor even as they have restricted the direct attack. In trade unions when they apply themselves only to local conditions, one finds a valuable counter-irritant to capitalism. In the matter of hours and wages, the union aids in striking a fair balance with the employer...