Word: laboritis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Railroad Labor. A new means of solving railway-labor disputes by mediation and arbitration had been worked out by railway executives and labor leaders, was embodied in a bill and was sent forth as a full-fledged law by the middle of May-a law that incidentally abolished the old Railway Labor Board which gave little satisfaction to anyone...
...Pepper they would be separated from the city payroll. This he vehemently denied. Colonel Eric Fisher Wood, Chairman of the Pepper Committee, admitted that a letter favoring Pepper had been published by his committee which purported to be signed by William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor but was a forgery. He said that the publicity department had received it from an unknown source and had believed it was genuine...
Though the government remained firm in its determination to jam through a suspension of the Seven Hours Act, the Labor party announced its irreconcilable opposition. Former Laborite-Premier Macdonald declared: "The Premier's speech was most disastrous,... will harden the miners into adamant resistance." Secretary "Emperor" Cook of the Miners' Federation apostrophized Premier Baldwin in a public speech: "You say, Mr. Baldwin, that you have no desire to lower the miners' standard of living. Baldwin...
Provisions of the Japanese Factory Act, promulgated last week, effective July 1, 1926: 1) Reduction of the maximum working day from twelve hours to eleven. 2) Prohibition of child labor in mines. 3) Prohibition after 1929 of night work by girls under...
Scorpions crawled on the bosom of Lake Cayuga one afternoon last week - the red-and-white-footed scorpion of Cornell and the blue-and-gold of California. For nearly three miles they crawled evenly, staccato voices in their tails urging their legs to greater labor. Then open water began to show. There was a scorpion's length of it between the two when Cornell-her eight gigantic hearties bursting from a last effort which her slightly lighter California guests could not match-shot across the line, winner of a crew race that promised brave things for Cornell later...