Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end 30,000 workers jammed Buffalo Stadium in Paris, booed moderate French Labor Union Boss Léon Jouhaux completely off the stage with hoots and cries demanding French aid be sent to Leftist Spain...
...this was extremely peaceable, without riots or even the summoning of police, but everyone remembered that in 1936 over 1,000,000 workers walked out as a means of: 1) pressing the first Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Léon Blum to legislate promised vital concessions to Labor; 2) coercing his political enemies of the Right into abandoning some of their opposition. Last week the workers appeared in an unorganized way to be again trying to drive and lead Léon Blum, who now heads his second Popular Front Cabinet and was encountering firm opposition last week...
Inviting his own assassination, Daredevil No. 1 deliberately chose to enter Vienna standing upright in an open car which first traversed the Jewish and radical labor quarters. Any resident in one of these dingy blocks of flats could with certainty have shot the burly Feldmarschall who rode along beaming, waving his gold-starred baton at Viennese who, whatever their private opinions, screamed at the tops of their voices: "Hermann! Hermann! Our Hermann...
After hearing three lessons, lasting less than 15 minutes, on the advantages of conservation, students swung sharply in favor of Government control of farming. After a five-minute paper on murder, a group swung in favor of capital punishment. After reading a speech by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins advocating social insurance, the students favored it much more strongly than before...
More complicated were reactions to discussion of labor unions. Groups, most of whom favored unions, heard a paper disparaging unions. Result was a marked shift to a less favorable attitude toward unions, but the lesson also split the groups sharply into two camps. This outcome Professor Remmers attributed to the explosiveness of the subject...