Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the "hot" car rolled across San Francisco's labor scene, it also aroused other employers. The Retailers' Council, which had been negotiating a new contract with A. F. of L.'s Retail Department Store Employes Union to cover 35 stores, flatly balked at the union's three big demands: 35-hour week, store-wide (instead of departmental) seniority for promotions, closed shop. The union withdrew the first demand altogether, said it would compromise on a preferential shop. The Council stood firm and out marched 5,000 (out of 8,000) store employes, mostly girls...
...stores stayed open. To show that Labor can learn new tricks as quickly as Capital, the clerks warned pickets not to use even linguistic violence (words like "scab" or "fink") in attempting to keep non-strikers and customers out of the stores. Before leading department stores-the Emporium, the City of Paris, the White House-pickets sang Solidarity and It's Not Cricket to Picket (from the hit labor revue Pins & Needles). Pickets played mannequin in new fashions, glistening coiffures. J. C. Penney Co. supplied its pickets with comfortable, low-heeled shoes. But by week...
When the potent Trades Union Congress, which represents 5,000,000 British workers, convened at Blackpool, Lancashire last week, loud demands were raised by militants for a new policy pledging Labor to cooperate no longer with Conservative Chamberlain's Cabinet in the big-paying job of Rearmament...
Officials of the T.U.C. and Labor Party joined in a resolution warning Germany to keep out of Czechoslovakia, demanding that Neville Chamberlain call Parliament in extraordinary session to stiffen British policy against the Nazis. But British Labor was not willing to deny support to stodgy Prime Minister Chamberlain. T.U.C. refused to condemn the Prime Minister by refusing him cooperation in Rearmament, decided that Labor will cheerfully continue to earn high wages building British armaments. Cold also was T.U.C. to dire warnings by Delegate J. C. Little of the Amalgamated Engineering Union that in piling up arms under Chamberlain, Labor...
General Goring is chief of the German Four-Year Plan and he roared defiance at whoever describes as "forced labor" the new ten-hour day which Germans have to work on armaments and fortifications, in many cases lodged in barracks distant from their homes. "If I take men from their homes and families it is for their own and their children's good!" shouted the General. "I take everything! I need everything! . . . We shall go on economizing. He who throws away the tinfoil of a cigaret packet is a dirty dog! . . . I hear that some people without public spirit...