Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hardman in last week's New Republic, paint a sorry picture of U. S. organized Labor, particularly of the A. F. of L. whose membership dwindled 71,000 in the past year alone because of unemployment. Urban U. S. citizens get the notion that every worker in the country has a union card. That is because city dwellers who are annoyed by having to pay plasterers $15.40 a day, come chiefly in contact with building tradesmen whose ranks show an optimistic gain of 461,000 in the past ten years. Over the same period, unionized printers and bookbinders increased...
...both countries. MM. Laval & Briand dined with Chancellor Brüning at the German Chancellery, lunched with Dr. Curtius, paid a morning visit to Old Paul von Hindenburg and, before returning to Paris, laid a wreath on the tomb of Brer Briand's old friend and fellow peace worker, Gustav Stresemann. Talk of M. Laval's impending visit to the U. S. (see p. 11), and of the possibility that Herr Brüning would go too. almost obscured the whole Franco-German gesture...
Less widely known is the early history of Primo Carnera. Born in Sequal, near Venice, oldest son of a mosaic worker, he quickly outgrew an apprenticeship to his father, worked in a cement factory at Nantes where he applied for French citizenship. Discharged from the factory, he joined an itinerant carnival, improved his muscles by wrestling with third-rate professionals, yokels in French villages. When the carnival disbanded, Monster Carnera bloated to 285 Ib. He was observed by a French pugilist, Paul Journée, who made friends with Carnera, telegraphed his onetime manager, Leon See, about the discovery. Manager...
Factories in Russia are working all day, all week and all years, except on May Day, October 7 and Lonin Day. Each worker is in the factory 8 hours every day but on different shifts each week, and every man gets a day off every five days. All rate of production is regulated by the government...
...form of old age insurance. The Carnegie Foundation provides (through its member colleges) 9,430 teachers with pensions much in the manner President Swope suggested. And last year (TIME, July 28, 1930), President Swope announced an unemployment insurance program for General Electric in which the company shares with the worker a fund which guarantees him $20 a week for ten weeks if he is idle...