Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bradford served his worldly apprenticeship as secretary (1931-34) to Democratic Governor Ely, Eliot as assistant solicitor in the U. S. Department of Labor, where he helped write the Social Security Act. Now these almost identical twins, self-consecrated to the cause of better government, are both in politics under opposite labels. In Middlesex County, in which one-quarter of Massachusetts' people live, a better element group, determined to oust Republican District Attorney Warren L. Bishop, whom they accuse of backsliding, drafted Republican Bob Bradford to run against him in the primaries September 20. In the 9th Congressional District...
...seen since the 1934 General Strike. So bucked up was Roger Dearborn Lapham, board chairman of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. and new chairman of the employers' strike-born Committee of 43, that he began organizing a permanent employers' federation to undertake collective bargaining and fight the collective labor battle of bosses on as wide a front as C.I.O. or A. F. of L. can cover for labor...
...railroads of the U. S. had rolled up a $181,000,000 net deficit for the first half of 1938, they moved to slash their greatest single operating cost. Notification was sent to railway unions that the roads would cut wages 15% effective July 1. Under the Railway Labor Act of 1926, preliminary horse trading thereupon began. Unions and management sat down together in Chicago, soon came to loggerheads. This automatically passed their dispute to the three-man National Mediation Board...
...George Cook. Grim also was the Pennsylvania's H. A. Enochs, chairman of the committee of 15 representing the railroads, which maintained, as they had from the first, that a wage reduction was "necessary, justified, and inevitable." Grimmest of all were President George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association (775,000 union men) and President Alexander F. Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (150,000 members). Labormen Harrison and Whitney, despite a quarrel that had them scowling at each other last week, have maintained ail along that heavy capitalization is to blame (see p. 62) and that...
...much support Leaders Harrison and Whitney will get in their respective strike votes remains to be seen. The ballots will not be counted much before October 1, when the 15% cut is finally scheduled to go into effect. After that, the National Railway Labor Act still has a long string to its bow. The President may appoint a fact-finding commission to report to him within 30 days. Thereupon both parties must preserve the status quo for another 30 days. Unless Franklin Roosevelt chooses to have the nation's most far-flung industry on strike on Election Day, railroad...