Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accident that the resurgence of Labor coincides with the presence in the Cabinet of its first woman, and she in the Labor Department. In Madam Secretary Perkins is concentrated all the philosophy of the New Deal and most of its instinctive sympathy for the working man. Early & late she has served as his able, articulate spokesman around the Cabinet table, before Congressional committees, at NRA hearings, on the stump. For the first time in years the working man may feel that there is a trained mind functioning for him in Washington. Gone are the easy platitudes of the politician; Miss...
With the tension considerably eased by this unexpected surrender, Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins mounted the witness stand to fire a volley of criticism into other provisions of Steel's code. She had forearmed herself for this attack by going, in a black dress that would not show soot, right into the mills and blast furnaces at Pittsburgh to talk with employes on work & wages. Now before NRA she was an emphatic objector to Steel's limited concessions to Labor. With all the prestige of the New Deal behind her, she pointed out that the proposed 40-hour...
Proud and pleased was General Johnson that some 30 industries were about ready to hand in their proposed codes. The wheels of I. R. A.'s machinery seemed to be whirring productively when up stepped Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins. She had to be heard. The law had set up a special Labor Board (see p. 16) especially to advise I. R. A., and Madam Perkins was its head. She & Board were determined to prevent employers from taking advantage of employes in the blind haste to get the recovery program going...
...Labor Advisory Board were ap pointed by Madam Secretary Perkins: Economist Leo Wolman: Joseph Frey, president of International Boilermakers Union; William H. Green, president of the A. F. of L.; Father Francis Haas of the Catholic Welfare Council : Rose Schneiderman, Secretary of the Women's Trades Union League...
Sauce for the gander being sauce for the goose, last week at the White House Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced jointly with Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins that women, too, would be sent to the woods this summer at Federal expense. An experimental camp was being built at Bear Mountain Park. New York, overlooking the Hudson. Thither this week were to go 25 unmarried, ablebodied, unemployed, penniless women between the ages of 18 and 30. Federal emergency relief funds were to pay $5 board each week for each woman wood-ster. They will not draw pay but will have counselors...