Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arbitration Before Mediation. John Lewis' chief lieutenant for the steel war, Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, had gone to Washington early in the week to confer with Secretary of Labor Perkins on the idea of appointing a Federal mediation board. She, a Joan of Arc to many a worker, was eager to do so, but Franklin Roosevelt had wanted to give Ohio's Governor Davey a chance to bring peace locally, as Michigan's Murphy had done in the motor strikes. Meantime, while Governor Martin Davey tried and failed, Franklin Roosevelt personally...
...most important news was being printed only in local Russian newsorgans in the regions where it occurred, sometimes even there in obscurest sheets. Thus at Minsk, capital of the White Russian* Soviet Socialist Republic, the important local newsorgan is the Star, but only in a Minsk paper called the Worker could one read last week the BIG STORY of how a three-day session of the White Russian Communist Party, devoted to frenzied charges and countercharges, had been capped by the sudden death of the White Russian President, Comrade Alexander Grigorevich Chervyakov. The Worker described President Chervyakov's demise...
Feverishly fingering through the Minsk Worker in Moscow, correspondents learned that in White Russia 998 ranking Communist Party members had been expelled as "hostile elements" and 31 more for "spreading Trotsky propaganda." The Worker printed names of 141 persons classed in Minsk officially as "enemies of the people"-this stock phrase meaning in Russia today either that they are already in jail or that police are after them...
...Board members are to be paid $10,000 a year, serve five-year terms and will have power to fix and vary minimum wages and maximum hours of U. S. labor (except farm labor) subject only to top limits of 80? per hour and $1,200 per year per worker. To disobey the Act or rulings of the Board is a misdemeanor punishable by a $500 fine or six months' imprisonment or both. Goods made contrary to the Board's rulings may not be trafficked interstate. The Board can require every employer to maintain special personnel and wages...
...from the presidency of Alabama College to effect Chancellor Kirkland's plans for whittling Vanderbilt's four-year course into two divisions (TIME, May 27, 1935). Chancellor-Elect Carmichael was Alabama's sixth Rhodes Scholar (1917). After the War, when he served as a relief worker and was arrested as a spy in Belgium, India, and once in Childersburg, Ala., he settled down to teach French in Alabama schools. He went to Alabama College as assistant to the president in 1922, succeeded his superior four years later. At 45 he is a husky, reticent man devoted...