Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this very first agency of the First New Deal, the President chose Tennessee-born, Georgia-raised Robert Fechner. Because Robert Fechner was an A. F. of L. unionist, and A. F. of L.'s William Green had at first opposed CCC as "forced labor," the choice was bound to be interpreted...
...Advisory Council Mr. Fechner has experts representing the four departments (Agriculture, Interior, War, Labor) most concerned with the program. Because Franklin Roosevelt implicitly trusted him, Robert Fechner ran and still runs the show...
...only 11% had finished high school. In age, 59.47% were 17 or 18. Nine per cent were Negroes segregated in their own camps (as are veterans; Indians usually work in reservation groups, live at home). Application for CCC jobs are cleared by local relief agencies through the U. S. Labor and War Departments. CCC juniors report, on acceptance, at an Army recruiting station, usually go directly to CCCamps, where they find a Reserve lieutenant or captain in command. There they begin group life in uniform. But they find no guardhouse, no drill, no saluting, no punishments that an Army private...
...machinist. He fought through a losing general strike in 1901 for the 9-hour day, was elected in 1913 to the general executive board of the A. F. of L. machinists' union. He sandwiched in a year's schooling at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, later lectured on labor relations at Harvard, Brown and Dartmouth. Still an officer of his union, he got his biggest vote for re-election after he took leave to go with...
Mainly responsible for this unique corporation is Pilgrim's 65-year-old President James Edwin Dann. In the 1890s, when he was a young laundry foreman, James Dann had an idea that decent labor standards would promote efficiency, even in the laundry business. When he met Edward Huff Bancker, an idealistic college graduate with some money, his idea became the Pilgrim Laundry, opened...