Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spring Street. When the Thomas family moved to Lewisburg, Pa. Norman, aged 16, entered Bucknell College. After one year, thanks to a relative who had more money than the other Thomases, he transferred to Princeton. Upon his graduation in 1905, he took a job as a settlement worker in the New York slums. It shattered most of his dreams about the nobility of the downtrodden. Upon the wreckage, amid the dirt and filth of Spring Street, he built up a practical philosophy about the masses which serves him to this day. In 1910 he married Frances Violet Stewart. Their honeymoon...
...class struggle'' involving the peaceful displacement of capitalism by an economic system wherein the State owns and controls production for the common good. This does not mean nationalization of all industry along the lines of the postal service, with the Government owning and running everything to the exclusion of worker and consumer alike. According to Mr. Thomas, the nation would become socialized in the sense that, while the Government would be the proprietor, workers and consumers would be the operators of the industrial machine. He considers government more efficient and honest than private business; the New York Port Authority...
Vocational Guidance. "Unhappiness and ill-health at work may be due to the fact that the employer or supervisor, not the worker himself, is a misfit. Vocational guidance must not be confined to the children of the laboring classes. In this country a limited amount of work has already been done in the guidance of public and secondary school pupils, with results which are distinctly promising. An extension of this work is greatly to be desired."?Dr. Angus Macrae, London...
...retrench. The Bat'a newspaper announced that the company had passed its dividend, that for the first time working partners will fail to receive their 10% return on the stock they hold. Under the Bat'a profit sharing system, half of each worker's profits has been automatically invested for him in Bat'a stock, thus making him a working partner...
...Depression is worldwide. That was not their explanation of the apparent prosperity of 1928. If they claim paternity for one, they cannot deny paternity for the other. . . . For ten years we expanded far beyond our natural and normal growth. . . . Corporate profit was enormous. . . . The consumer was forgotten . . . the worker was forgotten . . . the stockholder was forgotten. Enormous corporate surpluses . . . went into new and unnecessary plants, which now stand stark and idle, and into the call money market of Wall Street...