Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immigration question promises to assume paramount political and industrial importance in the near future. Day by day the tide of protest against the 3% law rises among employers of labor; day by day organized labor is strengthening its defense in support of restriction and protection; while Congress and the press as a whole appear to be taking the position that, bad as the law is in many respects, it would be a short-sighted policy to open the gates to the hordes of European unemployed...
...McCarl ordered the Navy Department disbursing officer to get back the money involved in an overpayment to an enlisted man in the Navy. Secretary Denby objected on principle to this " interference" in his Department. Naval officers and enlisted men protest that Mr. McCarl, in effect, overrules formal naval orders. Mr. McCarl replied in a letter to Secretary Denby: " There was no authority in such Administrative powers as are given the head of the Navy Department to issue an order annulling a request of this office to protect the fiscal affairs of the United States...
...ruling of the Interstate Commerce Commission that railroads should offer 2,500 mile transportation books for $72 (ordinary price $90) is strongly opposed by the railroads. Eastern roads, with the exception of the Baltimore and Ohio, made a protest before the United States District Court of Massachusetts to enjoin the Commission from enforcing the order. The Baltimore and Ohio joined with western and southern roads in petitioning the Interstate Commerce Commission for rehearing on the question of mileage books. Last week the Commission refused a rehearing. Now the question of mileage books rests on the outcome of the case...
...reaction of women's organizations throughout the country to the decision of the Supreme Court which invalidates the District of Columbia Minimum Wage Law for Women was immediate and violent. A chorus of protest went up from women leaders in many organizations: the National Women's Trade Union League, the National Congress of Mothers, the National League of Women Voters, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Women's Bureau in the Department of Labor...
...Kalinin, wife of the President of the so-called Soviet Republic of Russia. The presence of Mme. Kalinin in this country is rendered wholly undesirable by the deep feeling which has been aroused by the execution of Vicar General Butchkavitch. The action of the department is taken especially in protest against this execution...