Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lately. The mine produces one-third of the U. S. supply, the U. S. 15% of the world supply. Californians sometimes refer to Herbert Hoover as the owner, but he said in Manhattan last week that he holds 3% of the stock, has nothing to do with management or labor policy. If he did have, he said, the miners could join a union if they wished...
...Idria's labor policy would never bag Labor votes for Politico Hoover. About 125 men (mostly Spaniards) work in the ground and in two plants where quicksilver is distilled from cinnabar ore. They toil seven days a week (with pay for overtime), get around $4 a day. live in hovels, pay 20? a pack for cigarets at a company store. Recently they raised a fund for Loyalist Spain, then split over disposition of the money. One group called in C. I. O. organizers, who last week called them out on strike for union recognition. Brother Theodore and associates declined...
...Supreme Court this week handed the National Labor Relations Board its first serious setback in litigation, at the same time broadened its already vast powers over U. S. industry. In Consolidated Edison Co. of N. Y. v. NLRB, the Court ruled...
...bigger New York City vote for him was one of the reasons the State committee was reluctant to nominate him for the national body. Other reason was the method he had chosen to get out such city votes as he did: he had "played ball" with the local American Labor Party. In the end Mr. Simpson had overcome these objections. He now wanted to be certified by the National Committee. More, he wanted to be put on that body's Executive Committee, where New York's Hilles had sat, though his committee back home had not voted...
...Chamber of Deputies building. Other patrols stacked arms on important street corners and public squares. The authority of the Premier of France to govern by decree power granted him by Parliament was about to be disputed in a 24-hour general strike called by the French Confederation of Labor. The Republic's troops were posted to see that the Premier's authority was upheld...