Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...factual answer to that question because the U.S. Labor Department makes no nationwide survey of employment conditions. It gathers a few sample figures from which it estimates on a percentage system whether employment is rising or falling. Some 35,000 business concerns, employing less than five million workers, are regularly queried. Employment by these concerns during 1926 is set at 100%, against which, on a monthly basis, fluctuations are estimated. Three serious complaints against the accuracy of the Labor Department figures: 1) They cover only 12½% of the employment field; 2) No account is taken of the unknown number...
...first estimated that some 3,000,000 are now jobless: "I admit .there is distressing unemployment. . . . Something like 46,000,000 individuals are earning a living in the country and certainly 43,000,000 of them are at work." Then he gave his figures a political twist: "The workers of the country need the passage of the Tariff Act to remove uncertainty. . . . Delays in tariff legislation are more responsible today for creating unemployment than any other factor. Push the building program, pass the Tariff Bill and our worker will find employment...
Shirley Wynne, New York Health Commissioner,--"As a public health worker I am a strong believer in temperance, but our present method of achieving temperance by force of law is a failure...
...point and if birds are flushed, the judges score a point for him. The dog's opponent comes to an "honor point" and the competition goes on, both dogs striving for the whiff of quail, until the judges are satisfied which of the two is the better worker...
...leaders are J. M. Kingman '15, head boys worker at Lincoln House in Boston, and Sidney Lovett, Yale '13, pastor of the Mt. Vernon Street Church in Boston...