Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voting approval of the Government's foreign and internal policies. Munich is over the French Chamber dam, but the Premier will be savagely attacked when the Chamber reconvenes for his final break at Marseille with the Communists and for what critics call his "Fascist" measures against French organized labor...
...19th Century grave charges of maladministration were made against the company's rule. Arab slavers had been largely suppressed, it was admitted, but cannibalism was practiced, natives were forced into labor and the association had a strangle grip on all trade. Various commissions of inquiry failed to humanize the company's rule and finally in 1908 the Belgian Government formally took over the Congo's administration...
...Paul Osborn's screen play, Franz Waxman's score and the acting of precisely the right cast combine to make it the wittiest and most civilized cinema comedy of the year. Good sequence: Colonel Carleton and his son, whose morning diversion is watching excavations, discussing Capital and Labor while they wait for the noon whistle to blow so that they can go to lunch...
...sissies, the Molly Maguires were a gang of Irish plug-uglies who for two decades had terrorized miners' families, taken pot shots at bosses, and made things generally hot for law-abiding mine folks. "Mollies" had been as much of a nuisance to the coal fields' feeble labor organizations as to the mine owners. When they were finally dispersed with the aid of Pinkerton detectives and hangman's rope, all the soberer citizens of Pennsylvania's mining towns sighed with relief. But Pennsylvania's miners still sing about them...
...Recommended minimum wages for steel companies accepting Government contracts of $10,000 or more. Hearings on the matter were started last July by the Public Contracts Board of the Department of Labor. Last week the Board recommended minima of 62½? an hour in the East and West, 45? in twelve Southern States. Subject to approval by Secretary of Labor Perkins, the recommendations are a blow to small independent steel companies, a blessing to Labor which estimated that 75,000 men would get raises...