Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once again the hue and cry has arisen, and head-lines of a new "red" drive splash across the nation. The latest variant is the American Federation of Labor's threat to drive from home its child organization, the Teachers' Federation, unless the latter "cleans house" and ousts local "communist-controlled" units. Even the most cursory examination discloses the fact that this outburst is in the nature of a red herring, and that, in all likelihood, no one concerned will take any positive action...
...threatened drive is best explained as a sympathetic vibration from a bitter controversy which has long ranged within New York labor circles. There, in an atmosphere much beclouded--perhaps almost completely conditioned--by personal and political factors, several local teachers' unions have been unceasingly persecuted by a few other teachers, a good many rival labor leaders, and the Hearst press en masse. Because of a personal connection between the New York embroilment and the A. F. of L. Committee on Education, which is responsible for the "red" scare, it is easy to conjecture the latter as a deliberate maneuver...
Granted this, the current fishing expedition appears unlikely to land anything. The Teachers' Federation will not oust a number of very powerful locals which could be classed under the catchall "Communistic," nor will the American Federation of Labor oust as important an organ as the Teachers' Federation...
...Illinois in 1905 and in the past few years he has served on the editorial staff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He has devoted himself mainly to the study and analysis of problems dealing with Supreme Court decisions and controversies. He has also written about administrative law and labor...
Dilliard is still looking around before he definitely decides what courses he is going to take, but he will concentrate on administrative and labor...