Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remained that the 130-hour rule was written into the act at the express request of President Roosevelt's new WPAdministrator, Colonel Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington. And Franklin Roosevelt was on record, since as early as 1935, as opposing the "prevailing wage" provision demanded (and heretofore obtained) by union labor. In signing the new Relief Act, Franklin Roosevelt noted other "hardships" worked by it (TIME, July 10), but he passed the 130-hour proviso without comment. Evidently he and his Janizariat had not realized what a cannon-cracker it would...
...yacht Camargo, renamed it Ramfis for his small brown son, announced a private pleasure trip to the New York World's Fair-via Washington. This squeeze play soon brought forth almost all the invitations Dictator Trujillo had yearned for-a gala at the Pan American Union, dinner with Acting Chief of Staff Marshall of the U. S. Army, audience with Secretary Hull, tea with Franklin Roosevelt. Also included in the program was a luncheon by Haiti's Minister Elie Lescot, to prove that Haiti has forgiven Trujillo for his troops' extinction of some 18.000 Haitians in bloody...
Last week the dapper Dictator docked at Miami, sped to Washington by private car. A guard of honor (four squads of Marines, with drum & bugle corps) met him at Union Station and celebrations began along the well-trodden trail-wreaths at Arlington and Mount Vernon, inspection of the CCC camp at Fort Hunt, cocktails with Congressmen. But the next day, Death squelched the squeeze play. In deference to his late Secretary of the Navy (see below). President Roosevelt postponed Trujillo's tea to this week. The visit with Secretary Hull became a brief formal call.* The Pan American party...
...Federation of Labor, resigned and took three months' pay. Into Rocky Mountain Fuel's offices in Denver moved William Taylor, president of Cleveland's Coal Mine Management Co. His aim: to reorganize R. M. F.. put it back on a paying basis. Colorado mine union leaders talked to Reorganizer Taylor, said they were satisfied no change in labor policies was intended...
Last year, Potash Co. of America (owned in Denver) profited from the Syndicate's attempt to rig the market, and doubled its plant capacity at Hobbs, N. Mex. Union Potash and Chemical Company, also of New Mexico, and 50% owned by International Agricultural Corp. (big fertilizer company) acquired three new leases to Government potash land, sped up shaft sinking to new deposits...