Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into a yellowed, two-story frame house at Endicott, N. Y. one day last week a delegation bore 18,000 cards and stacked them on a table before the old man who lives there. "From a loyal E. J. worker to our friend George F.," read each of the cards. "On this Thanksgiving we are thankful. We want you to be thankful with us." Thankful with them was George F. (for Francis) Johnson, cofounder and board chairman of Endicott Johnson Corp., second largest shoe manufacturing company...
...week it had no constitutional powers to charter, direct or assist its affiliates. One of the eight cofounders, David Dubinsky, thought C. I. O., the Congress, would re duce the chances of reunion with A. F. of L., therefore refused to enter the Congress with his International Ladies Garment Workers (TIME, Nov. 21). Many another believed the existence of a "permanent" rival would chasten A. F. of L.'s more pugnacious leaders and make the Federation "see light." Some of the younger Leftist militants (chiefly Longshoreman Harry Bridges, Sailor Joe Curran) wanted Leader Lewis to go beyond his stand...
...Finley. who took over the editorship in April 1937 after 16 years as associate editor, is an inveterate worker, talker, walker (he once walked 70 miles in one day, till this year annually circumambulated Manhattan), degree-taker (he has 31 honorary degrees, 21 LL.D.s). Of late he has been ill and Charles Merz has been filling in. Last week, with the Merz promotion. Dr. Finley was made editor emeritus...
Supreme Court. Moreover, any worker or union may sue in "courts of competent jurisdiction" (presumably meaning either State or U. S. district courts) for: 1) the difference between wages paid and wages required by the Act; 2) an equal amount in liquidated damages; 3) costs of the litigation. Each one of a firm's employes may sue separately, running up fantastic legal costs for employers. This undoubtedly will serve as a potent incentive to compliance and a rich field for shysters...
Died. Susan Cleveland Yeomans, 95, oldtime antisuffragist and W. C. T. U. worker, last of Grover Cleveland's eight brothers & sisters; of old age; in Brooklyn...