Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aware of the background to New Deal labor legislation. He conceded that the abuses of power by employers had brought about the penalties which employers now suffered. He could recall the great Carnegie Steel battle at Homestead, the sweatshops of the Manhattan garment trade. He might have known something of the terror of workers in union-hating plants. But what he saw now was a counterrevolution and New Deal excesses...
...Screwball." In recent months labor had been lying low. But Joe was not fooled. It was with a very earnest intent to do something that Joe Ball wrote his labor laws. There were practical objections to some of them. Some industries, notably the garment trade, believed that industry-wide bargaining and the closed shop had brought peace and stability. In the once strife-torn garment industry there has not been an important strike in 14 years. Union leaders and even some employers predicted that Ball's bills would throw some industries into chaos. They referred to Ball...
Both of tonight's speakers have been active in labor relations for several decades. Besides his experience in the trade union movement. Golden has served on numerous government agencies including the National Labor Relations Board, the War Manpower Commission, as well as various independent and state organizations. Author of several articles, and co-author of a book on industrial democracy, he is on the advisory committee of the Trade Union Fellows here...
...eyed skunks, encouraged by the fact that many people do not mind a distant skunk smell on a frosty morning. But the perfumers finally gave up on skunks: their scent is basically a defensive weapon rather than a sex lure. Muskrat glands, a cheap by-product of the fur trade, did work. The muskrat substance is not a very pleasant smell, but a lucky chemist discovered that he could split its molecules in two, turning it into a blockbusting fragrance not unlike musk. (The nonutilitarian musk ox simply smells...
...paralysis through British industry. Democratic moderates in France and the Low Countries has looked to a flow of consumers goods from these factories to clothe and comfort their shabbily-dressed millions while at the same time the export of processed foods to England was to be balanced by this trade. To Germans the British dimout meant that the industrial rehabilitation of their country must await stimulus from the east, since Newcastle can scarcely afford coals for its own mills, much less for export...