Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year) is consumed by applications for 18 months to come. At the Department of Labor there was discussion last week of "mortgaging" the quota another 18 months ahead, letting in 81,000 refugees at once. President Roosevelt last week expressed himself against this course, but he did exercise his power to extend for six months the visitors' permits of some 12,000 Germans (of all races and creeds) now in the U. S. The President also asked Myron Charles Taylor, now serving as U. S. representative on the Intergovernmental Committee of Political Refugees, to return at once to London...
...George Gallup recently polled U. S. voters on U. S. Labor. He found that 78% preferred A. F. of L.'s William Green to C.I.O.'s John L. Lewis. His conclusion: "The majority of American voters, particularly in the upper and middle classes, fear the power of Lewis and the C.I.O." Last week the frightened classes had a look at the man and the thing they fear...
...agriculture is concerned, it must be remembered that it is either plantation agriculture or cattle raising. Not only is the climate too severe to permit Europeans to do actual labor in the field, but there is also the social system in Africa which frowns on anything but native labor...
...when $2,000,000 was openly transmitted from the Industrial Bank of the U. S. S. R. via Lloyds' and other British banks to leaders of the British General Strike-most of whom were not even Communists, an excruciating pain to the devoted. They watched beefy British Labor leaders who took the money, who were interviewed by London papers as exclaiming "Thank God for Moscow!", and who then gave up the General Strike with about as much mealy-mouthed reluctance as served Britain to give up Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland without a fight...
Spouting such claims in a rival blare of oratory is not the only string to the chains' bow. A. & P. pays an average of $30 a week to managers and clerks, compared to the Department of Labor's figure of $22 for all retail stores. In their Public Statement in September the Brothers Hartford declared that passage of the Patman bill would put 1,000,000 men out of work. Meanwhile, with little fanfare, A. & P. agreed to place all its outside printing contracts in union shops. Promptly the A. F. of L. announced that it was against...