Word: labors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...died in the War of 1812-and declared that aliens resident in Canada or naturalized Canadians could not under the 1924 U. S. Immigration Act commute across the U. S. border to daily work. Minister Massey had protested to the U. S. on this interpretation, originally made by the Labor Department, on the ground that it goes behind Canada's citizenship laws, discriminates between native and foreign-born citizens of the Dominion. The Supreme Court's decision immediately barred some 600 Canadian workers at Detroit...
Professor Burns is at present connected with Chicago University from which he has made a hurried trip to come here. He is an important member of the International Labor Organization at Geneva and was prominent for his work on reconstruction after the World War. He is the author of "Philosophy and Labour" and "Government and Industry...
...effected through the medium of privately engaged lorries in the service of the Club. Within four feet of its destination, the Mecca Temple, the van was stopped by members of the Stage Hands Union, and upon the protest of this latter group appealing to the regulations necessitating union labor, the properties were removed from...
...South the union labor movement has made the smallest headway. Of old U. S. ancestry, the workers were individualists, long trained to stand alone. Fanatically religious (mostly "wash-foot" Baptists), they viewed organized labor as Communism, and Communism, they were told, turned people against God. They had no fear of Negro competition in the mills because they knew that the blackamoor, inefficient at best with machinery, was lulled to sleep by its rhythmic motion (soporific hypnotism). But now they are no longer "poor white trash." They have begun to taste the power of combined action, to strike for what they...
...process of building the Panama Canal, symbolic of great labor, was painted by Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee), famed Scandinavian-born U. S. artist.* Last week twelve of his paintings were purchased anonymously in Manhattan for presentation to the U. S. Military Academy in memory of the West Pointer who, as chief engineer, was most potent in channeling the isthmus-the late General George W. Goethals...