Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thus collect dues to sustain the strik ers already out. But they found it hard to keep members at work ?members who glanced out of mill windows to see strikers idling in the sunshine, who realized that they were in effect supporting those strik ers by their labor. Many a new union member was tempted to quit the mills and join the "free grub" line in the sunshine...
Official cognizance of the textile strikes was taken in the U. S. Senate last week when Montana's Wheeler offered a resolution for an investigation, at the request of President Green of the American Federation of Labor. Quickly uprose in protest North Carolina's two Senators?white-haired, old-fashioned Lee Slater Overman and small, grey-foxy Furnifold McLendel Simmons. They could see no good reason for an inquiry into North Carolina's labor troubles?and antiquated labor laws. Senator Simmons declared that if there was to be a textile strike investigation, let it include Massachusetts as well...
...women to be told . . . that it is 'healthy' to smoke cigarets. It is impossible to believe that you, Dr. Macfarland [Dr. Charles Stedman Macfarland, General Secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America] and that you, Mr. Green [William Green, head of American Federation of Labor] representing millions of workers, can feel that broadcasting is reflecting either the interests of the church or the home when such harmful propaganda is sent through the air." Thus, half-incredulous, half-accusatory, the Open Letter appealed to the better natures, the higher selves, of Advisory Council members. It made...
...returned to Mexico shortly after the Obregon government came into power. The new government, socialist-labor, saw the virtue of popular art and commissioned native artists to decorate government buildings in a way that peons could understand. Native talent was abundant. After six years, Diego Rivera has emerged as the leader of many...
...work of 50 years, deep mine of source material. Author Hackett used these and many another book and record. He worked on his biography over a period of six years. It has the best of material (perhaps too much), a brilliant style (now and then a polish with obvious labor in it). He demonstrates that the "psycho-historian" should be "then-minded." In addition to Henry and his immediate group, he gives an enlightening picture of contemporary Europe...