Word: labors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frosty morning in February 1924, Gus Orvel Nations, Chief of Federal dry agents at St. Louis, raided the Griesedieck Brewery, arrested Raymond Griesedieck and 43 employes. The U. S. indicted Brewer Griesedieck, Missouri Beverage Inspector Charles Prather and Heber Nations, Missouri Labor Commissioner, brother of Gus Orvel Nations. Minor offenders were released. Prather pleaded guilty, said he received protection money from Griesedieck, split it with Heber Nations. Twice was Heber Nations tried, twice convicted. Twice the U. S. Court of Appeals upset the verdict, ordered a new trial. He is now waiting his third trial, Griesedieck his first...
Clearly the existence of such a state of mind meant that last week "The City" was putting heavy pressure on the Labor Cabinet of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, and through him on Chancellor Snowden. As Mr. Lamont left London to sail on the Olympic for Manhattan, his cheerful air kindled confidence among businessmen that "The City" would yet put things right...
...take an executive, white-collar job with Britain's Great Western Railway. He had just led a successful strike. When the white-collar was proffered with a temptingly high salary Mr. Thomas went home and talked to his wife. According to an inspiring, legendary-tradition in the British Labor Party Mrs. Thomas said: "Jim, if you ever desert the union I will never speak to you again...
...newfangled humanitarian conscience. Last week he finished jamming through two thirds of Mexico's 28 state legislatures a Constitutional amendment. It permits enactment by the Mexican Congress of a law which Senor Fortes Gil declares will "create an equilibrium between the Tyranny of Capital and the Tyranny of Labor...
...lawyer-President personally drafted the law when he was Minister of Interior in the cabinet of bull-necked Plutarco Elias Calles, also a two-fisted idealist (TIME, Nov. 19, 1923, et seq.). Little was heard of it then. Printed on 160 single-spaced pages the Fortes Gil Labor Code is too complex for one Mexican in 1,000 to grasp. Basically it aims to displace the present ill-coordinated State labor laws with a sweeping Federal system of drastic potency. Passage of the necessary Constitutional amendment last week gives the President a free hand to railroad enactment...