Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Noting these facts, the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, meeting last week in Miami, went to grips with a new labor problem by instructing President William Green to make a survey of the "deadline-at-40" practice among employers. President Green's first line of inquiry will be through the State legislatures...
...Labor suspects that it knows what causes underlie the discrimination against 40-year-oldsters. Older men are discharged and younger men hired, thinks Labor, to keep down the average employe age upon which group insurance premiums are reckoned and paid. Unmarried men are in greater demand than family men because of the lower payments to be made under workmen's compensation laws...
Organized demands for greater immigration restriction, and elimination of private, profit-seeking insurance companies from the labor field, were suggested at Miami as protections for workingmen over...
...test case the Berlin Labor Court held that any clause or agreement barring servants from Aufzüge or Fahrstüle is void, and branded all such prohibitions as "obsolete and anti-social." This ruling may be an opening wedge to compel landlords and employers to provide better living conditions for domestic servants. Even in modern Berlin apartment buildings, backstairs are unlighted, and despite the long German winter, maids' rooms are nearly always without heat...
...Federal Council of Churches consists of representatives of 28 Protestant denominations. It has a constituency of about 20,000,000 members. Bishop McConnell's fame as a religious leader rests largely upon his battles for better labor conditions in Pittsburgh mills and mines. His thoughts, utterances run in liberal channels. Recently he posed the ticklish question: "Is not this tendency to deify Jesus more heathen than Christian?" Bishop McConnell seemed to think it was. Dr. Grant, shocked, responded with another question : "If that is Bishop McConnell's position, then the thing that concerns me as a Presbyterian minister...