Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...society is now constituted, only those who have something to sell--who are able to enter into a give and take arrangement--can, as the phrase is, "make money". The president of a shoe manufacturing company is paid a good salary. He has his services to sell and can say to the director, "Pay me, or you won't get me". But a missionary is in a different situation. All he says is, "Pay as much as you can, and as long as I have enough to eat, I'll work...
...recognized and organized participation of workmen, in greater or less degree, in the determination of questions affecting their wages, hours, and conditions of labor. Wherever union agreements have existed as for example, on the railroads, in the mines, in sections of the printing trade and in the boot and shoe industry, employee representation has, to a certain extent, also existed. It is to be noted in passing that in those few large industrial groups where collective agreements are of long standing, more ambitious joint councils are now forming as the natural and logical development of closer relations between employer...
Three weeks ago the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, cooperating with employers' association of all New England States held in Boston a conference on employee representation. It was a most interesting meeting. Representatives of the General Electric Company, the International Harvester Company, the Thomas Plant shoe manufacturing company, the MacCallum Hoslery Company, the Walworth Manufacturing Company and the W. F. Whitney Company described their plans and reported in no uncertain terms on the success of employee representation. In brief, the testimony there presented was to the effect that better relations with the employees had been established, sharp labor controversy reduced...
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are Italians by birth, the former a shoe worker, the latter an eel seller, who were for many years aggressive in solidifying Italian workingmen in demands for higher wages. Both men were friends of Andrea Salredo, who last year plunged to his death from the 14th story of a building where he was confined by the Department of Justice. Two days after his death they both were arrested. They were connected with two hold-ups and sentenced; their supporters claim that they had nothing to do with the hold-ups, but were victims...
...team has lost once this winter to the University by a 4-1 score, the game was played early in the season before B. A. A. had profited by more than a day or two of practice. Since then they have improved remarkably, and, though losing once to the Shoe Trades team of Boston, are practically sure of winning the Eastern division title of the United States Amateur Hockey League; and they will play a Cleveland team for the national championship...