Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After two weeks of negotiation with University Hall, the labor groups have made no headway, according to Joseph Stefani, leader of labor forces. He said that recourse to the strike action was necessary to impose a three-point program which has been consistently rejected by the College officers...
...Cleveland, after scientific tests with typists, Patent Attorney Frank M. Slough declared that the average typist does more manual labor in an eight-hour day than a ditchdigger...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt tonight called representatives of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations to meet at the White House at 2:30 P. M. Tuesday to begin conference designed to bring peace in their three-year struggle for supremacy...
...Roosevelt will participate in the meeting as will Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. He is expected to reiterate the appeal he made a week ago to CIO President John L. Lewis and Federation President William Green--that the warring labor factions sign a peace pact and unify under one banner for the common good of the people and the country...
Serious obstacles -- including those of dual unionism and an AFL -- CIO fight over whether any changes should be made in the Wagner Labor Relations Act--loomed on the are of the conference...