Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole truth. Alfred Renton Bryant ("Harry") Bridges proceeded to tell more about himself than anyone had told before. Because he is the most potent and feared Laborite in the western U. S., Bridges on Bridges was bound to furnish 1) news, 2) insight into the innards of Leftist Labor...
...next 15 Government witnesses established to the contrary, the Service's Deputy Commissioner Thomas B. Shoemaker might have dispensed with them and saved much wear & tear on Harvard Law School's Dean James M. Landis, sitting as special examiner by the very special request of Secretary of Labor Perkins. Since Mr. Shoemaker had no direct evidence that Bridges actually belonged to the Communist Party when the complaint was filed (March 2, 1938), his only recourse was an attempt to show circumstantially that Defendant Bridges thought, talked, acted like a Communist who advocates forceful overthrow...
Witness Bridges demonstrated that whether he is a Communist or not is important primarily because it will determine whether U. S. citizens who own property and hire labor can be rid of Harry Bridges, trade unionist. The quality which made him tick as precisely and dangerously as a bomb-clock did not come from Marx. It was simple, deep and active discontent-with things as he found them during his boyhood Down Under in Australia, with the U. S. as he found it when he sailed through the Golden Gate on a freighter...
...Minister Nash, from the beginning of his London stay, showed he had uncommonly winning ways even with hard-boiled bankers. He took time off to explain his social and economic theories not only in the London Daily Herald, the Labor Party newsorgan where he could expect a sympathetic audience, but also in the Financial News, a City newspaper which has often criticized his policies...
Commodities. The Bureau of Labor's wholesale price index hit a new 1939 low-75.2, its bottom since...