Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reorganization proposed the first new department since Labor was created in 1913; Welfare, under which would function agencies like WPA, National Youth Administration and possibly the Social Security Board. It proposed also a National Resources Planning Board...
...destiny, thinks is a matter of great concern to his friends and enemies. In the course of a career filled with action rather than ideas, he has rarely decided on tomorrow's problems today. But John L. Lewis, having cut himself adrift from old-line organized labor and far offshore from the President on whose election he spent half a million, now revolves in the centre of a swirl of social forces that cannot go on swirling indefinitely. If he wants to dominate these forces, he must soon decide not only for what ends, but also how they...
...specifying the nature of the menace, Mr. Lewis, a former Republican, offered as sweeping an indictment of capitalist economy as has ever come from a labor leader who is not an avowed Marxist. "We do not intend that our children shall starve in the midst of plenty," is the familiar Leftist battle cry which the C. I. 0. chief raised last week. "Hundreds of thousands of the people of this nation have for years on years been exploited, oppressed and denied the exercise of those rights guaranteed to them under our Constitution. . . . They have been little more than industrial serfs...
...Reason calls for a change," Mr. Lewis insists. But this change is no revolution. "It is time for capital to recognize labor's right to live and participate in the increased efficiency of industry and the bounties of our national resources. It is time for labor to recognize the right of capital to have a reasonable return upon its investment. It is time for statesmen to recognize their nation's peril and to decide to cooperate with labor and industry. . . . Labor is willing to co-operate-now. Let the leaders of the nation's business step forward...
When the council of reason meets, labor's interests will be identical with those of the country as a whole: "The future of organized labor . . . is in a broad sense the future of America . . . [the workers] desire to benefit not only themselves, but all other citizens of this country...