Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What put Corcoran, Hopkins & Co. into the armament business was a chance to hitch New Deal pump-priming to National Defense. In the democratic jitters after Munich they saw a glittering opportunity to butter up and stimulate heavy industry without surrendering to it on the issues of labor, utilities, regulation. The bright prospect to them was that businessmen who got Government millions in armament orders could hardly object to continued and even intensified regulation, especially if it were in the name of National Defense. Public health, housing, power, all could be tied to Rearmament-for-uplift, and Franklin Roosevelt would...
...Francisco employers long ago learned from Labor that in bargaining the group is mightier than the individual. In several industries they formed potent associations, first to beat down Labor then to deal with it when unions came to stay...
Last week a leader in this evolution toward unionism for employers succeeded in doing for San Francisco business what Labor has never been able to do for itself. In the newly incorporated San Francisco Employers Council, Shipowner Roger Dearborn Lapham offered his fellows one big union of their own, a master association of employers associations. He thus put San Francisco a long jump ahead of any other U. S. city and injected a new factor into Pacific Coast labor relations...
...Organization of labor into national unions." Opposed by 51.2 per cent...
Probably the Progressive tries too hard to force the situation into the dialectic of the class war. The great masses of Cambridge may be poor, but they have no direct contact with Harvard aside from visits by the Student Union labor sympathizers, and these contacts ought to arouse just the opposite of resentment. On Harvard's side, it must be denied that a large section of the students regard the people in the way the Progressive charges. It is more probable that most of them have little opinion one way or another about the Cantabridgians save after infrequent goading...