Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until the next war the Ley and sister ships will cruise regularly to the Mediterranean and Norwegian Fjords, carry "deserving workers," approved by their employers and the Labor Front. The fare to approved passengers will be as little as $30 per trip. Closing the launching ceremonies, Orator Hitler, looking meaningly at a big delegation of voters from Germany's newest province, Austria, cried: "What formerly was available only to a small privileged class we shall make available...
When Adolf Hitler descended on German trade unions in 1933, jailed their Lewises, Greens and Homer Martins, he lumped them together, willy-nilly, in the government-controlled Labor Front. Over it he placed 48-year-old Robert Ley (pronounced Lie), party henchman and passionate organizer. Dr. Ley did not at once promise his charges more wages, or fewer hours of work, but he did promise job security, no pay cuts and the Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) Society. Strength Through Joy provides sports, inexpensive cinema, theatre, military band concerts, exhibitions, holiday trips on its four ocean liners. Last week...
...another conference with railroad bigwigs to discuss the desperate railroad plight (see p. 64), the roads had their first good news in many a day. The House Interstate Commerce Committee killed a Senate bill to limit the length of freight trains to 70 cars-a law for which railroad labor lobbied long and earnestly but which would have cost the roads an estimated $125,000,000 to put into effect...
When the railroaders got together with the President this week for their last say in the matter, they brought a plan cooked up by chunky George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association. Labor's George Harrison suggested that the Government grant the railroads an outright subsidy sufficient to bring their revenues to the normal $800,000,000 a year. This might mean a Government outlay of as much as $465,000,000, would presumably be produced by RFC. John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads nodded in approval. So did his committee of presidents: Frederick...
...grapevine rumor reported him as dubious of its practicality. He was also reported to have asked that no wages be cut by the roads. When George Harrison and fellows emerged from the White House after two hours all he would say was: "We presented the joint views of railroad labor and management. . . . The next move is up to the President." With many a major road ready to totter at any moment, it seemed unlikely that Franklin Roosevelt would delay more than a few days...