Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...multitude gives me a grant of authority to represent it, but when they send their grant of authority, then my strength is multiplied and multiplied in progressive ratio, and it becomes a strength to be reckoned with in the realm of affairs in our democracy." Man of Politics. Labor's multiplied power man has let it be known that the strength of himself and multitude remains at the service of Franklin Roosevelt and New Deal, but not necessarily at the service of Franklin Roosevelt and Democratic Party. To drive home this distinction, John Lewis took as his text Boss...
Some, feeling that the U. S. Press has sinned often and greatly against U. S. Labor, did not blame Labor for making a whipping boy of the sinner, did not mind hearing C. I. O. denounce their publisher bosses. All were prepared to dine amicably on the fourth evening with John L. Lewis, who wished to salute the biggest outpouring of correspondents accorded any convention since the Democratic National Convention...
...reporters tumbled off their Olympus. Sore on their individual accounts, they were particularly angry because the resolution was aimed at the New York Times'?, fair and able Louis Stark, who by example has generally done more than any other one man to raise the level of labor reporting. The Lewis dinner was "off the record." But plenty was said to him and Guild President Heywood Broun...
While Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was discussing the German-Austrian influx last week (see p. 9) her subordinates at Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco were wrestling with a Chinese refugee problem. Wives and children of U. S. Chinese are admitted under citizenship laws. They are now filtering across the Pacific at a rate of 225 per month...
...Unity. The Czech Agrarian and Czech National Socialist groups, the Fascist National League and part of the Czech People's Catholic Party complied. The minority Socialists, Communists and dissident Catholic deputies did not. Pending punishment for or forgiveness of their recalcitrance, they were allowed to sit as a Labor Opposition...