Word: laboritis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were some labor-union leaders to be lunched and golfed with; two bridges between Staten Island and New Jersey to open formally; a clemency plea from two convicted murderers to consider. There was an inaccurate "shot" in a Prohibition film to denounce and have omitted. Then there was Mrs. Smith's departure for Houston, the first time in a long time that Alfred Emanuel Smith had been separated from his wife for any great length of time. So Alfred Emanuel Smith had plenty to think about last week besides politics...
...lost about $4,000,000 in wages and the mills had lost some $1,820,000 in idle overhead. Mediation by citizens remained futile. New Bedford was a dead city, except for the fish trade. . . . But the cloth market's season for fall goods was at hand. Labor predicted a "victory...
...closed your sketch of the able Walter Percy Chrysler: "To save himself reading labor, he had a paper made up for his private use. It is an expensive clipping of magazine articles and economic reports...
...does not busy, opulent, auto-mobileman Walter Percy Chrysler save himself additional reading labor and expense by reading TIME...
...study of union, non-union and open shop labor conditions that Vice President Staunton B. Peck of the Link-Belt Co. concluded last week for the National Association of Manufacturers, naturally hoped to put a rosy lacquer on the open shop principle of employing labor, that is, of making no discrimination against union or non-union labor, just so that the union organizations do not pester the employers...