Word: labors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of Labor James Mitchell stated on April 7 that if unemployment did not go below 3 million in October, he would literally eat his hat on the Labor Department steps. Because of the steel strike, the unemployment figure for this month is expected to be slightly over 3 million. Official figures are due out on November 10. (New York Times, 10/19/59...
...languages, most of the newcomers, as satellite refugees from Communism, backed Conservative Premier Robert Menzies. But some of Menzies' aides shudder to think what would happen to their own fortunes if the Continental Roman Catholics joined up eventually with Irish Catholics among the Old Australians, who traditionally vote Labor...
...manner of Socialists everywhere these days, Japan's out-of-power Socialists spend as much time and energy fighting one another as they do fighting the opposition. Right-wing Japanese Socialists dream of a "responsible" Socialist Party along the lines of the British Labor Party; left-wingers prefer brawls to ballots, and take their cues from the Communist-lining leaders of Japan's biggest labor federation, the 3,500,000-man Sohyo...
...wingers of being "proCommunist and anti-American while pretending to be neutralist," Right-Wing Leader Sue-hiro Nishio took 30 Socialist Diet members with him and set up a new "Democratic Socialist Party." Nishio is a coldly aloof onetime foundry foreman who organized one of Japan's first labor unions. He made it clear that his new party would have no time for "the proletarian revolution" and class war, would attempt to offer Japan's growing middle class as well as its laborers a non-Marxist alternative to the conservatism of Prime Minister Nobosuke Kishi...
...fact. In Blythe's time, there was a proto-union of Irish immigrant miners that violently opposed exploitation by American industry. Calling themselves the "Molly Maguires" after the famed Irish rebel,*they operated outside the law, tried and condemned opponents on their own. Blythe, who was obviously no labor sympathizer, records one such drumhead trial. John O'Brien Inman was the son of the prominent portraitist Henry Inman. Oddly enough, he himself never made much of a reputation. But his Moonlight Skating in Central Park is pure champagne: chill, sparkling, heady. And like the others in the exhibition...