Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special inducement, all members of the Labor Front will be provided with a uniform: dark blue tunic and military cap. Added announcement: "Anybody wearing it will be quite in style at the theatre, opera, or concert. No worker need miss such entertainment any longer for lack of evening clothes...
...nationalistic demagoguery the hard, clear fact is emerging that the foundation of Nazi economic policy is going to be the lowering in the standard of living of the hitherto powerful German worker. The announcement of plans for unified corporations of workers and employers merely indicates the specific form under which the power of organized labor will be broken. There can be no practical value of these organizations except to guarantee a docile and controllable labor...
Next in line for favours is the city bourgeoisie, especially the vociferous lower middle class. They will be reduced equally with the worker by rising food prices. Just how they will be rewarded it is pointless to guess. Another Nazi pronouncement will tell the story before long. The farmer will then have to sacrifice a part of his gain in raised commodity prices, but only a part for labor is not to be in on the cut. The technique (if sincere bigotry can be called technique) for hiding this redistribution of national income will be a continuance of racial self...
...empty chair with its lighting effect, recommended to all Golden Rule church or community dinners, was evolved by Charles Vernon Vickrey, onetime Near East Relief worker who in 1923 invented International Golden Rule Sunday, expanded it in 1929 to Golden Rule Week, formed the Golden Rule Foundation to promote...
...garage near San Jose City Hall. At the garage they found a husky man in a faded blue sweater still talking in the telephone booth. They dragged him out. He said his name was Thurmond. At a nearby hotel they caught his accomplice, one John Holmes, unemployed oil worker...