Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever have a place as the man who kept Little Steel from being unionized by C. I. O. in 1937. Tom Girdler hopes never to be in such a position again and one good way to forestall it is to make his $364,000,000 company less dependent upon labor. Since this is also the path of progressive technology, Tom Girdler found double delight last week in formally opening what Republic claims is the world's largest, fastest and most mechanized continuous strip steel mill. A 21-acre pile in Cleveland's desolate Cuyahoga River valley...
Edwin A. Lahey, 36, reporter for the Chicago Daily News. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he has specialized in labor coverage...
...inviting the State Labor Relations Broad to probe the University's conduct, the A.F. of L. has stirred Harvard's labor cauldron and heated its simmering waters to a new boiling point. But the charge that the University has fomented a company union and coerced employees into joining it is neither supported by the facts nor even thoroughly believed by the Federation itself...
...just as precipitously as they joined. The accusations against the University constitute a strategic manoeuvre on the part of the A.F. of L. to force Harvard to end the irresponsible actions of some of the janitors. By confining its employees to their proper functions the University can avoid a Labor Board hearing which would prove annoying even though it revealed a group of minor employees out of hand and not an anti-Federation cabal in University Hall. Better control of the janitors would enable the University to make its oft-heralded claim of neutrality undoubted fact. The University should...
...bringing to Harvard a wide variety both of backgrounds and of experiences. As intelligent members of the working world, especially of the newspaper business, they should have great practical appeal to undergraduates. Besides those intending to enter journalism after graduation, students interested in hearing about the real side of labor and politics will want to meet the Fellows. The university can easily recognize this chance of introducing the world to Harvard by inviting men to attend the Fellowship discussions and perhaps by inducing certain of the Fellows to hold informal chats occasionally...