Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was a triumph for the extreme Leftists, who hold that tips are humiliating. Declared Minister of Labor Jean Lebas during the heated Chamber debate: "The worker should not receive as alms what is his right!" Under the bill, which faces strong opposition in the more conservative Senate, workers caught soliciting or accepting tips would be penalized. The money would be made up to them, and more, in regular wages obtained under the workers' Blum-given collective bargaining contracts. The cost would be passed on to the public by 15% or 20% price increases at restaurants, cafes, cinemas...
Impressed by this large-scale demonstration of his power was Secretary-General Vicente Lombardo Toledano of the year-old CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers), a hot-eyed little industrial unionist who likes to be compared with John L. Lewis. CTM's Toledano was one big step ahead of CIO's Lewis in that the employers had voluntarily formed a syndicate to bargain collectively under Mexico's 1931 Labor Law. Negotiations were stalled when the employers stuck flatly at the Oil Workers' demands: a 40-hour week instead of 44, a boost in minimum wages from roughly...
Legislators meeting in Harrisburg: Will you take the responsibility for cutting the wage of every worker in Pennsylvania...
...Arthur Hoppock, to change all this. In the past ten years 85 paintings by living U. S. artists have been bought by the Metropolitan. Last week a significant addition to this catalog was announced: an oil by William Gropper, oldtime cartoonist on the radical New Masses and Daily Worker, who began to show his paintings two years...
When 13-month-old Barbara Stobie's protruding abdomen grew so big that she seemed ready to give birth to a baby of her own, her young mother, wife of a southern Oregon timber worker, finally took her to a local doctor. He suggested that the baby go to the Doernbecher Memorial Hospital which the State of Oregon maintains in Portland as an adjunct of the University of Oregon medical school. There the blonde little caricature of motherhood underwent an X-ray examination a fortnight ago. This revealed to the dumbfounded staff of the hospital that Barbara Stobie...