Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless, the report which appeared yesterday is outstanding for its sympathetic sincerity. If any generalization can be made abut something so broad in scope, it must concern the genuine if temperate liberalism; and the honest desire to search out and alleviate the injustices under which younger instructors now labor. With one exception, it is able to harmonize with the recent Teachers' Union document...
...labor contract, second of its kind in 302 years of Harvard's existence, not only granted the A. F. of L. the sole bargaining rights it earned last year, but also virtually assured cooks and waitresses of an eventual closed shop...
...signing of the agreement by Financial Vice-President John W. Lowes '19 and Labor Leader Joseph Stefani yesterday, ended over two months of strenuous negotiation. The bargaining many times became severely strained by the threat of complete breakdown and the possibility of a walkout in House and Union dining halls...
Last week Labor took a beating from the Army. At the emphatic demand of Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring (and after a talk with Franklin Roosevelt), House & Senate conferees on the Army's pending $366,250,000 rearmament authorization bill dropped an amendment tacked on by Majority Leader Barkley. The Army opposed it and Labor wanted it because it would have kept any national defense contract from being awarded any bidder who refused to bargain with his workers collectively. Although friendly Senators offered to limit its effects to firms actually convicted of violating the Wagner...
Historic to Labor was the case of the Danbury Hatters. In 1902, A. F. of L.'s United Hatters of North America called a strike and instituted a nationwide union boycott against D. E. Loewe & Co. of Danbury, Conn, (still a hatting centre...