Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just in time for public consumption over the long Labor Day weekend, President Roosevelt last week released the report of his Commission on Industrial Relations in Great Britain, basic document for next winter's Congressional debates on altering the National Labor Relations Act. It is a cogent, dispassionate, impartial treatise, the product of nine good minds working in politely self-critical harmony.- Its findings were purely factual. It contained no shadow of moralizing for the benefit of U. S. employers, employes or politicians...
...Britain's employers are organized into parallel groups: industrial associations formed first to combat, later to bargain with, the labor unions. There are 266 general employer associations, 1,550 locals. At the top is a National Confederation of Employers' Organizations...
...Collective agreement" in Britain does not mean a labor contract between one employer and one union. It means a contract between a group of associated employers and a union or a group of associated unions...
...British Labor quickly settles its "demarcational" (jurisdictional) disputes by committees within its own hierarchy...
...British Government, under the Minister of Labor, is the following machinery for keeping industrial peace...