Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...someone put a bomb in a suitcase and left it on San Francisco's Market Street, where it blew up to kill ten and injure 40 marchers and spectators in a Preparedness Day Parade on July 22, 1916. Charged with the crime principally because he was a rough labor leader even in a day and place where roughness was the rule, 33-year-old Mooney was convicted along with 22-year-old Warren K. Billings...
...exhaustion. But Tom Mooney would not let his own impaired health stand in the way of the greatest day of his life. From Sacramento next day he motored to San Francisco at the head of a caravan of 20 cars that swelled to 200. In a parade San Francisco labor had arranged for him, Tom Mooney refused to ride in an automobile. He walked, bareheaded, ahead of the members of his old A. F. of L. Moulders' Union, ahead of Harry Bridges, ahead of everybody. The siren of the Ferry Building, block away from the scene...
...Near Düsseldorf, in the Rhineland, it was revealed that German laborers had been asked at a Yuletide Labor Front celebration to write on a slip of paper their answer to the question: "What wish would you like to have fulfilled during 1939?" Six slips read: "A new government!" The rebellious laborers were discovered, sent to a concentration camp...
Home to her mother at Los Gatos, Calif., after seven months of marriage, went Yaltah Menuhin Stix, 16, younger sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Husband William Stix, attorney for the National Labor Relations Board, said nothing. Mother Menuhin said Yaltah would remain in California until "the inclement weather is over...
Terms of the compromise contract, signed after a hearing before the State Labor Relations Board Friday morning, include a seven per cent wage increase, 48 hour week, and a preferential shop...