Word: laboritis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April 2 in the Union, Houston Thompson will speak. Mr. Thompson was a former member of the Federal Trade Commission, and he will probably deal with problems in labor and the methods the Commisson has used in dealing with them...
...Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Co., $3,373,976. Previous year, $5,049,367. President N. F. S. Russell offered no encouragement to stockholders: "As long as French costs for labor remain at levels 50% or more below similar costs in the U. S., such importations [pipes] will remain a commercial factor. It is one of the anomalies of the situation that some of the largest public utilities, privately or municipally owned, dependent on the sale of their water, gas and power to residents of the U. S., should, for a small percentage of ultimate savings, purchase foreign pipe...
Thus spoke last week Secretary of Labor James John Davis, spurred to vivid language by cries of "unemployment" rising throughout the land. Where, how much and why is "unemployment...
Last month Baltimore sent policemen to every family in the city to learn exactly how many wage earners lacked employment (TIME, Feb. 20). Events justified their preoccupation. Last week the American Federation of Labor published its January table of unemployed union workers in 23 cities. Baltimore held first place with 42.5% unemployed. Of 23 cities Chicago was the only one where unemployment decreased. The table...
Died. Max Pine, 62, labor leader, relief worker, a founder of the Forward, famed Jewish daily; of pneumonia; in Maywood...