Word: trades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever-vigilant Federal Trade Commission has reported that the Radio Corporation of America possesses a virtual monopoly in the radio industry...
...page in this collection of stories to which one can return with admiration and warmth, saying, "Here is good writing! Here the austerity of loveliness has been touched, here is a paragraph of music and mystery!" Perhaps there is no demand for these articles in the trade today. True, we find Mr. Burke babbling in a slum story of "beauty gone astray", but one easily sees what he means, and there's an end to that...
...efforts of the pioneers in the trade union movement were praised highly. "To my mind, no material gain to society can compare in importance with the spirit of independence and manhood that the unions have inculcated in the minds of their members. The worker of 75 years ago had no social status. He was to be obedient and subservient, he was expected to be grateful to the employer for giving him employment and to depend on his future state for substantial rewards for a life of service. Now he realizes that the labor which the worker gives is equal...
...increasing number of split vote elections. The power of Labor grew tremendously under the impetus of the war. During the long and hard post-war period, people have seen unemployment spreading, they have seen no improvement of conditions under either the Coalition or the Conservative governments. Therefore even though trade union membership may have considerably diminished, sympathy with the Labor party and hope in its promises have increased. And hence the remarkable growth in power of a party not contemplated in the British Constitution...
...wide range in the choice of subjects is allowed. A writer may choose his own subject, on the approval of the committee, or he may select one of the topics suggested. Among these are: "Potential Organizability of Women in American Trade Union," "The Workers' Press--A Critical Analysis and a plan for the Future," a number of questions connected with Nationalization of Industry, and "The Effect of Business Cycles on Radical Movements...