Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ministress of Labor Margaret ("Saint Maggie'') Bondfield provoked the crisis by refusing a Left Laborite demand to add ?50,000 ($250,000) to the dole under the Government's Unemployment Relief Bill (TIME, Nov. 25). Then upon hobnailed feet rose sturdy John Wheately, a Scotsman from the industrial Clydeside slums of Glasgow, five years ago Minister of Health in the first MacDonald Cabinet...
...roared Clydeside John. "When I think of the speeches made at the general election by people [Laborites] around me now, the appeals to the class among whom I was brought up to put their faith in us-when I come here and have to listen to a Minister of Labor telling us she has to steel her heart against a demand for ?50,000 to alleviate the worst form of suffering amidst the poorest of the poor! It makes me almost burst with indignation at the dishonesty of politics...
...What is the [Labor] government going to do about all this? If we had Hoovers in every country, the problem [of Disarmament] would be solved...
...also a trio, silently accompanied by twisting fingers in the crowd, articulated the hymns "Abide With Me," ''Lead, Kindly Light." "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go." Died. James P. Noonan, 51, president of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, sixth vice president of American Federation of Labor; at Washington; of burns suffered when he fell asleep while smoking...
Loudly have jobless U. S. musicians complained against the new sound-film devices (TIME, May 27, et seq.). Last week in Geneva their complaint was internationally amplified before the International Labor Organization, associate organization of the League of Nations, which had called a committee to consider ways and means of helping musicians compete with sound machines throughout the world...