Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tomorrow is Labor Day. Labor Day in this country has never been a class holiday. . . . There are those who fail to read both the signs of the times and American history. They would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. It is those short-sighted ones, not Labor, who threaten this country with that class dissension which in other countries has led to dictatorship and the establishment of fear and hatred as the dominant emotions in human life...
...survey: Case 49,021: An investigator called on a woman in Henry Street, wanted to find out why her husband had been absent from his job for three days. "Absent-absent-these last three clays?" stammered the woman. "But-but-my husband died last year." Case 33: The worker was convicted of robbery last year, sentenced to from two to ten years in the Connecticut State Prison. Concluded the interviewer: "In-asmuch as this worker will be unable to work in the future, he should be separated from the payroll." Case 2,490: "Upon being ushered into this...
Recommendation: This worker has no self-respect nor any for his wife. His salary is a detriment instead of a help...
...recommend that this worker be separated." "This worker" is still on the WPA payroll...
Having thrown dead cats at New Deal Relief for two years, Republicans eagerly picked up this fresh ammunition from the Journal, let it fly. Quick to the WPA's defense rushed the New Dealish New York World-Telegram which pointed out that the survey covered only one WPA worker...