Word: lubin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the moderator turned to Commissioner of Labor Statistics Isador Lubin, asked him about labor's angle on wage and price levels. Mild and scholarly, Lubin tried to head into non-controversial ground. He complimented business, labor and Government on having pushed National Defense without important strikes. Particular thanks were due the New Deal, for having managed to avoid the advances in living costs which usually accompany big rises in production, get labor angry...
...from proving noncontroversial, the Lubin remarks set off a bomb. The bomber: John L. Lewis' general counsel and right-hand man, onetime Wall Street law cub, later New Dealer, now widely suspected of being a Communist fellow traveler, Lee Pressman. In his cold, incisive way, staring straight across the banquet table at middle-of-the-roader Lubin, Pressman told the New Deal (and, incidentally, John Lewis' recent allies further to the right) what to expect. His warning: that workers will not base their wage demands on the cost of living only; what they want is a share...
...Kessler '42, Buffalo; Spencer A. Klaw '41, Carmel; Robert F. Kolkebeck '43, Brooklyn; Lawrence Lader '41, New York; Murray A. Lampert '42, Brooklyn; Perry D. LeFevre '43, New Paltz; Nathaniel S. Lehrman '42, Albany; Wallace B. Liverance, Jr. '41, Malverne, L.I.; John M. London '41, New York; Martin Lubin '43, Brooklyn...
...dispute over whether a shortage of mechanics existed: A. F. of L. claimed that an incomplete survey in 33 States by the Social Security Board showed there were 657,000 unemployed skilled craftsmen; employers claimed that they were shorthanded. A partial explanation (offered by U. S. Labor Statistician Isador Lubin): geographically, workers and jobs had not yet got together...
...Dealers' first impulse was to laugh. Nimble-brained, birdlike Isador Lubin, chief numbers man of the New Deal as Commissioner of Labor Statistics, declined to dignify the Thompson-Krock "discovery" with a reply. But by the time the columnists had each propounded a second column in defense of their discovery, their detractors gulped...