Word: protections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France since 1919 has been the 48-hour week. The 40-hour week passed the Chamber last week 385-to-175, went to the Senate along with the four other bills which seek to compel two-week vacations with pay for all French workers, collective labor contracts to protect their rights, higher wages and reduction of some taxes paid by War veterans...
...blasts against Japan touched off all over South China precisely the sort of Chinese popular unrest and baiting of local Japanese needed by spunky little Japanese Premier Koki Hirota as an excuse to intervene. By his orders a Japanese cruiser and six destroyers soon slithered into Amoy "to protect Japanese lives and property." Added a Japanese destroyer officer, "We are ready to proceed to Canton at a moment's notice...
...they were promised for adoption, at a date not yet announced, a new Constitution to defend their personal rights and interests. According to All Union Chief Prosecutor Vishinsky a special object of the new Constitution will be "to provide maximum precautions against unwarranted indictments and unjust convictions" and to protect the individual "even against wrongful prosecution by the State...
Cleveland newshawks got together three years ago to talk of organizing to protect their jobs, shorten hours, raise pay. Soon they heard that similar meetings were being held in Manhattan, Minneapolis and St. Paul. Result was American Newspaper Guild, founded in December 1933 with shaggy, drawling Scripps-Howard Columnist Heywood Campbell Broun as its president. Though some of the members at first did not like to proclaim it as such, the new Guild was a labor union from the start. Last week in Manhattan's Hotel Astor, the third annual Guild convention enthusiastically admitted this fact when instructed delegates...
...been made of solo instrumentalists and dancers. The Guild wanted to put all foreign artists through the Department of Labor's strainer. "You have taken care of those in the bush leagues," complained Tenor Charles Hackett, no bush leaguer, "but not those in the major leagues." Furthermore, to protect its members, the Guild wanted some sort of provisional reciprocal agreement between the U. S. and foreign countries put into effect instanter while Congress ponders a permanent measure...