Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made their first appearance; it was in Chicago that they multiplied most rapidly; and it was in Chicago last week that Yellow cabs waged with their rivals. Checker cabs, a fierce, fantastic warfare. The cause of the war was of course to be found in business and labor rivalries. The Yellow cabs belong to the Yellow Cab Co., of which Mr. Hertz is president; it employs drivers, giving them a percentage of their cab earnings. Oldest in Chicago, it has the best and most numerous stands. The Checker Cab Co. is newer, has poorer stands; it leases its machines...
...mighty hall full of puzzled heads supported by tired spines, the British Labor Party's new electoral platform was pegged together and tinkered with, at Birmingham, last week, until it contained the bewildering total of 65 major planks and nobody seemed to know how many planklettes...
Cried keynoter and Chairman of the Congress George Lansbury (a onetime Red now faded Pink and increasingly potent, among Laborites) : "Socialism is now British Labor's only goal. We raise that banner aloft and we shall keep it flying until Great Britain's resources are owned and used in the service of all the people...
...speech of sapient logic and tart sarcasm Mr. MacDonald set forth Labor's view of the new Anglo-British "gentlemen's agreement" thus: "You can have either diplomacy with a cat well hidden in the bag and kept from mewing, or you can have a cat out of the bag and open to the inspection of everybody. This was not quite secret diplomacy, because Sir Austen Chamberlain (British Foreign Secretary) mewed and the newspapers mewed and are still mewing...
Thus British Labor now stands for a broad, fraternal pacifism, embracing all nations; and for a strict exclusion from its doctrines of all tenets more advanced than those of Socialism...