Word: trades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ways: Assistant Attorney General Jackson, with his political eye cocked at his chief, berated the "business Bourbons"; Secretary Ickes claimed that sixty families controlled the economic destiny of the nation. Labor opened its mouth first when Matthew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L., said that most trade union leaders thought the government had gone too far in regulating industry. The U. A. W., an affiliate of the C. I. O., declared that the solution to the present business recession was to increase the purchasing power of the workers. Business, of course, made it plain that New Deal...
While it is apparent that the government has spoken most rashly, labor has forfeited its right to voice opinion because of the unlawful violence which has accompanied many strikes and followed, after successful negotiation, many more. A well-known trade magazine showed that labor violence forced 58 plants, representing 200 million's worth of capital and a half million in Social Security taxes, to close for keeps--statistics which Washington admitted it makes no effort to collect. Unions cannot afford to be divided, to hold Communistic and racketeering elements, nor to coerce the free will of their members...
Published last autumn by Bobbs-Merrill Co. was a $2.50 volume called Labor Spy, purporting to be the autobiography of a crack operative who spent 20 years at his trade. Apparently he found it healthy to retire to a Canadian farm to write under his old detective agency designation GT-99. The book was a hair-raising success story of how a good machinist broke into the spy business writing daily reports on his fellow workmen, advanced to union-busting, then settled down in a midwest industrial centre to bore into the local labor movement in behalf of the manufacturers...
...Persians had told the League that they were not particularly pleased that their country's economy was supported by the narcotics trade, but what were they to do about it? The English had grabbed their oil, and in their vast and mountainous country-one-fifth the size of the U. S.-there were no arteries of transport on which agricultural or mineral wealth could be carried down to the sea and the world's markets. The poppy's drowsy seed, very valuable and very light, was the logical, evolutionary Persian product. A camel could carry thousands...
...January 1935 Marshall Field & Co. had the largest drygoods business in the world, the largest building in the world (Chicago's Merchandise Mart for trade exhibitions), the second biggest department store in the world and one of the biggest drygoods wholesale businesses in the U. S. It also had a reputation sacrosanct in Chicago and gilt-edged the world around. Nonetheless, in the previous four years it had lost $13,200,000 and the directors were so worried that they hired a business analyst named James O. Mc-Kinsey to study the matter. Hulking, robust J. O. McKinsey...