Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plant in whose office I am employed is now shut down due to labor difficulties, of which this instance is one of many. The office force, though never involved in the disputes, is perforce out of work...
Instead, every day from the Bijur kitchen ten to 15 Ibs. of meat, seven to ten Ibs. of butter, 18 to 20 loaves of bread have gone to nourish the strikers. The servants do most of the labor, Mrs. Bijur sometimes helps (see cut). To protest the banking department's failure to rehire the strikers, the Bijurs last month refused to pay rent until served with a dispossess notice. Mrs. Bijur trudged up & down four flights of stairs rather than use the elevator and condone the presence of strike breakers, some of whom have joined...
Said Mrs. Bijur last week: "I just know these people, and even though they are poor they are right. I am helping to avert a revolution in this country by feeding them. What we need to end labor strife is more religion, more charity and a greater obedience to the will of God. ... Six more of the strikers' wives are pregnant, and it looks as if I will have quite a hospital bill by summer...
Administrative law is the name lawyers have for rulings of Government agencies like the Federal Trade Commission and National Labor Relations Board, to whom "lawmaking" authority is delegated by Congress. With over 100 such agencies functioning today, administrative lawmakers rival judges and legislatures as a nuisance to lawyers. Last week the House of Delegates (legislative body) of the American Bar Association, to which 16% of U. S. lawyers subscribe, convened in Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel to discuss two new brands of nuisance insurance...
...Bethune was in her glory last week. To her second National Conference on Problems of the Negro & Negro Youth came 125 delegates to urge abolition of poll taxes, attack discrimination against Negroes in the Army & Navy, TVA, Federal Housing Administration. To address the convention, in the Department of Labor auditorium, came Mrs. Bethune's friend, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. Speaking as an "individual," Mrs. Roosevelt urged passage of the Anti-Lynching Bill which Southern Senators filibustered to death last year...