Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voted for a motion censuring the Government's ineffectiveness in dealing with the tragic national problem of unemployment. Although Conservatives number 412, the Labor motion was defeated by an adverse vote of only 331. Explanation: Even Conservatives are becoming worried at Mr. Baldwin's failure to reduce the number of the unemployed, which now stands at 1,242,000, an increase in the last year of 206,000. Not since the brief, disastrous period of the General Strike (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926) have so many Britons been jobless. Ominous last week was a warning issued...
After seven sweltering days of conference in Indianapolis, the Policy Committee of the United Mine Workers of America last week voted to accept what was called "Labor's greatest defeat in years." The question was, and had been for some time, whether to relinquish to district vote the authority long exercised by the United Mine Workers' national officers over wage-agreements in the bituminous coal fields...
Morones Forced Out. Not to defend Roman Catholicism, but to discredit the Mexican Federation of Labor was the shrewd purpose of Senor Antonio Diaz Soto y Gama, leader of the rival Agrarian Federation, when he presently declared: "There isn't a man, woman or child in all Mexico who accepts the official charges that the Catholic clergy inspired the assassination of President-elect Obregon. Everybody knows Morones did it. Morones must go, or President Calles's administration will forfeit the confidence of the public...
Socialists failed to comprehend Mrs. Baldwin. They know, as everyone knows, that the Conservative party is historically belligerent and imperialist, while the Socialist or Labor party is pacifist...
Beloved Speaker Whitley had been returned to Parliament from Halifax for 28 consecutive years, in 1918 received 22,136 votes to his Laborite opponent's 4,036 and was elected unopposed in 1924. But obscure Alderman Longbottom polled 17)536 victorious Labor votes...