Word: laboritis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indications at the present time point to the possibility of a wide-spread textile strike throughout the South. Labor is inflamed, and justly so, over housing conditions, hours of employment, and the low wage scale prevalent in the textile mills of the southern states...
...throughout, the land. During the war, when the I. W. W. first showed it's head in the northwestern states, it's members were promptly termed communists, menaces to organized society, and deserving of immediate exportation. It's tactics were denounced on every side. Yet those familiar with the labor conditions in the northwest, both before the war and of recent years, cannot deny that the situation, from the point of view of the worker, is much improved. In almost every said of large scale industry, conditions of living, wages, and hours of employment have been bettered for the working...
...analyzed. Last week a journalist named Francis Wallace published some figures in The Saturday Evening Post. He showed that football's drawing power is about $50,000,000 a year, that some colleges make half a million out of their teams because they "get raw material, exploitation, and labor at slight cost. The schedule makers are planning five years ahead, signing contracts for attractive intersectional games, based no longer on natural rivalry or academic interest as has been the norm, but upon filling the stadium. Alumni, considering themselves stockholders, help to build the stadia, divert promising prep-school material...
...Author Asbury's own deflection from the faith of his ancestors is expressed in the title of another Asbury book: Up from Methodism. His father and five uncles served in the Civil War, himself in the World War. As a Georgian newsgatherer in 1914, he helped pass child labor laws. His study The Gangs of New York has been praised by gangsters themselves. He edited The Bon Vivant's Companion, an elegant liquor manual (1928). In aspect he is an extremely busy Manhattan journalist, with a great curiosity about the more flamboyant affairs of state...
...speech-on Boston Common yesterday afternoon, L. B. Cohen Jr., '32 president of the Harvard Socialist Club and distributor of "Welcome To MacDonald" circulars, urged labor to elect representatives to the legislature to take the places of those who were the nominees of capitalists...