Word: labourers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keep on pointing out that value no longer arises, as in Marx's day, from labour but from the Cultural Heritage (ref P. de Kruif's writing on wheat, and Mark Carleton...
...Pinchot, wife of the governor of Pennsylvania. In bringing up the charge that there are towns in Pennsylvania in which she was not permitted to speak in favor of the recovery program, and in giving the names of steel employees who were discharged because of their part in her labour meetings, Mrs. Pinchot has given a real and unmistakable challenge to the present administration. Mrs. Pinchot was one of the many liberals who believed in the NRA before an examination of the fundamental political philosophy could vitalize it; her disillusionment, sharply expressed in General Johnson's conference, may serve...
...Budd Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia, are the especial targets of Mrs. Pinchot's attack. The Budd company has openly defied the code provisions of the NRA, and the complaints against them have been referred back and forth, with an agonizing inconstancy, from the Department of Justice to the National Labour Board. When Mrs. Pinchot wired to Senator Wagner of the Labour Board, an assistant wired back a request for affidavits, although several thousands of affidavits were already in the hands of the Board, and as many more with the Department of Justice...
Perhaps the NRA can weed out child labour, now that adult labour is the issue. Perhaps it can weed out unfair competition, when competition is the issue. Perhaps it can give labour an advisory power, when labour ownership and control is the issue. But anyone who knows the history of the Labour Party in England and the Social Democrats in Germany will give very small odds that it can accomplish even these things, in the face of a capitalist emergency which cannot afford the concessions which it might have afforded in its healthier days...
...power, not to abolish it. ... Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism . . . Christian morality is, like every morality, renunciation and nothing else. . . . Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. . . . Finance-Socialists and trust magnates like Morgan and Kreuger correspond absolutely to the mass-leaders of Labour parties and the Russian economic commissars: dealer-natures with the same parvenu tastes. . . . All really great leaders in history go 'Right' however low the depths from which they have climbed...