Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basis of the St. Louis tragedy was a Cuban decree of May 5, requiring authorization from the Departments of State, Labor and the Treasury in addition to visas and landing permits. The Hamburg-American Line, according to the Cubans, was informed of this change in the immigration law before the St. Louis sailed for Havana, but chose to gamble on the chance that once the Jews were planted on Cuba's doorstep, formalities would be waived...
...corporate state" on the model of Fascist Italy. A $70,000,000 subsidy was set aside to build up a merchant fleet to "display New Spain's prestige in America and the Far East." Curtailment of imports of gasoline, motor cars, machinery, motion picture films was announced. Syndical labor laws were ordered written, with labor unions being organized on the approved Fascist model. Strikes will be outlawed, the unions will be controlled by the Government. New contracts will be written for tenant farming, and the Spanish Phalanx's program for redistribution of some large estates will be carried...
Told by newsmen that Columnist Westbrook Pegler had suggested he go back to work, Labor Martyr Tom Mooney brandished a paid-up A. F. of L. Molders Union card, snapped: "During eight years of that hell [22 years in San Quentin Prison] I peeled potatoes. . . . Maybe that writer of scurrilous stuff may classify what he does as work...
...their low inventories, too, the conspicuous retailing chains are exceptional, not typical. Two important evidences of continued inventory trouble-which augurs more production curtailment instead of imminent recovery-were available last week from 1) the continued fall of the Bureau of Labor Statistics index of all wholesale commodity prices, and 2) developments in the textile and steel industries...
Mean temperature of the Congress was well below the boiling point. Rare were such fighting words as: "Writers have no base outside the labor movement." Rare were such old battlecries as "proletarian," "class-consciousness." Delegates hurried nervously through their mainly autobiographical speeches, subsided meekly on the chairman's time-signal, as polite fellow delegates rose politely to comment. From Communists, as such, came not a sheepdog's bark...