Word: labors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blood splattered on the marble floor of the New Orleans City Hall last week as, for a second time, the street car strike in that city went berserk. Politics and Labor mixed to make an unholy brew of violence...
...three flights of steps to the colonnaded City Hall marched several hundred strikers and sympathizers. At a mass meeting the night before they had heard Gus Williams, Recorder of Mortgages, Labor candidate for Mayor, urge them to "storm the City Hall until your demands are satisfied." Within the massive stone building, they turned down the righthand corridor, pressed into the Council Chamber, overflowed its 150 chairs, jammed themselves against the creaky wooden railings. With George Washington and Andrew Jackson looking down from the walls, they booed the police, cheered their leaders, itched for action. Behind a table sat the Council...
Fortnight ago the gist of the proposed new treaty was indiscreetly hinted before it was complete by Right Honorable Tom Shaw, bullfrog-voiced unstatesmanly Secretary for War in the new British Labor Cabinet (TIME, Aug. 12). Last week, as Prime Minister Mohammed sailed home to Egypt, the British Foreign Office released the text of the agreement which he carried, announced that it represents the "extreme limit" to which the Labor Government will go "to achieve a lasting and honorable settlement of the outstanding questions between Great Britain and Egypt...
More than 1,000 people crowded into Manhattan's Hotel Astor last week to attend a banquet in honor of a Chiropractor. Otto Hermann Kahn, financier and music patron, lauded the Chiropractor. So did William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. So did dapper James John Walker, mayor and candidate for mayor of New York City. Finally the Chiropractor himself arose and talked about ''the mechanization of the art." To the art of kneading and pummeling spines he did not refer, but to the art of Music. For the speaker was Joseph N. Weber...
...banquet celebrated Mr. Weber's election as eighth vice president and executive councilman of the American Federation of Labor. Among the celebrants were printers, upholsterers, teamsters, longshoremen, actors, men who play the oboe, others who play the market. Mr. Weber had news to impart about the ousting of cinema theatre orchestras by the "talkies," which constitutes Organized Music's most pressing problem (TIME...