Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industrial court, of last resort, to which the Minister of Labor may refer deadlocked cases if both sides consent. Its findings are not binding unless both sides agree to that in advance. It writes no opinions, for neither employers nor employes wish to build a body of industrial case...
...Courts of inquiry, which the Minister of Labor may appoint if a major public interest is at stake...
Smith had a fat majority of votes, the widest margin of all his six races for the Senate. In the textile towns, millworkers had poured out to vote for Governor Johnston, aroused by President Roosevelt's promise of a better deal for labor. But many mill hands and most propertied people and almost all the cotton growers -sharecroppers as well as landlords- trooped to the polls to vote for Cotton Ed, the farmers' friend...
Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews of the Wage-Hour law last week announced selection of his strong-arm man: the Assistant Administrator in charge of compliance. He will be bald, stoutish Major Arthur L. Fletcher, 57, since 1933 North Carolina's commissioner of Labor, a War veteran lawyer who used to work in his State's tax division with Josiah Bailey, now a Senator. Major Fletcher's chief accomplishment, besides drafting labor laws hailed as models, and condemning "gypsy" factories which exploit communities briefly and then move on has been raising flowers (150 varieties) in his garden...
...torian Hubert Howe Bancroft. For 20 years well-to-do, wavy-haired Lawyer Ban croft has interested himself in raising pears and walnuts across the Bay from San Francisco. By his activities in Associated Farmers of California, which fought unionization of farm workers, he has earned the enmity of Labor. He has urged that to obtain local Relief, "Californians" be required to prove five years' residence; for old age pensions, 15 years' residence (instead of five years as in the "Ham & Eggs'' proposal...