Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herr Kapitan-Lieutnant Helmuth von Muecke, commander of the cruiser Emden during the World War, plans an American lecture tour to acquaint ignorant, eager audiences of the marauding deeds of his vessel. Surprisingly enough, there is an avalanche of protest. An honest raider, perceiving that there is almost as much money in lecturing as in writing Memoirs, proposes to turn an honest penny by presenting to us such interesting, vivid pictures as the blowing up of passenger ships and the sinking of army transports...
...than when allowed plenty of room for expansion. But when the Governor of a state overrides a law and frees prisoners at the very beginning of their sentences in the face of a decision by the Supreme Court that the law is constitutional; there is room for a legitimate protest...
Moreover, to say that "if there is a shortage of labor, then the unemployment period must be at an end" is like the attempt to extract rays of sunshine from a cucumber. What the manufacturers in this country protest is not the lack of skilled labor, of which, I believe, there is no serious shortage, but the generally experienced shortage of unskilled labor. In fact, there are large number of skilled workers in the shoe, textile, and other industries still unemployed...
There is at present a considerable protest by manufacturers, particularly in New England, against the existing immigration laws. Mill owners are beginning to feel the pinch caused by a shortage of labor. A Greater Boston manufacturer wrote recently, "Unless there is some relief in the shape of immigration, we will be forced to shut down our plant. . . . It is not a question of wages; the help is not here...
...priority rights by the practice of farming out the shopwork. On 19 different line shop-work was thus contracted out to dummy corporations, and as a result of this the workers on other roads feared that their standing and rights would also be nullified later, unless they made a protest...