Word: protests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week Judge Gary or one of his technical experts denies the charge. The history of the movement against the twelve-hour shift shows that criticism of industries using the long work day is becoming more and more conservative and respectable. At first only a few radicals and professional muckrakers protested. Then the American Federation of Labor began a series of futile efforts to organize the steel industry with abolition of the twelve-hour shift as their chief talking point. The next important protest was made in the Interchurch World Movement's report on the Steel Strike. Now the Federated...
...This protest from the Dutch comes on the heels of a similar representation from the Swiss Government...
Catholic and Lutheran organizations appeared before the United States Supreme Court to contest the Nebraska school law. The law prohibits religious instruction for pupils below the eighth grade in public, private, and parochial schools, except after dark and on Sundays. Both churches protest that the statute is an invasion of their constitutional rights...
Mary MacSwiney, widow of the Mayor of Cork: "Since her arrest by Free State soldiers on Feb. 13, Annie MacSwiney has been on a hunger strike and is getting very weak. So I cabled my brother-in-law in New York: 'Notify friends in United States to protest...
Speaking of the Liberal Club, the Campus has heard rumors from Cambridge, Michigan, California, New York, and elsewhere, that the modern college Liberal Clubs are growing contumacious. At Michigan, for instance, a number of students resigned as a protest against the suppression of one of the Liberal papers. And so the Campus pictures its own Liberal Club as a group of young, bearded Bolshevists, who, in the words of one in authority, "like all Liberals, can only see one side of the question." We might venture an opinion, here, that both the conception and the remark are unjust. The Yale...