Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Lewis and his C. I. O. are currently out to organize every worker in the steel industry, regardless of craft, into one big union (TIME, July 20 et ante). Composed of industrial unions, C. I. O. is dedicated to extending this form of labor organization to absorb the greater part of the U. S. working class. With this objective, the 13 A. F. of L. Councilmen, whose livelihood depends on the autonomy and independence of some 100 traditional craft unions, obviously could not compromise. So the next business before the Council was to hear evidence justifying the suspension...
...Field shifts from the town of Los Olivares to Asturias, and the story comes to a climax with the defeat of the Asturian miners in the revolution of 1934. Although some 50 characters are introduced, most of the violent action revolves around Mudarra, a tall, impetuous Anarchist, a skilled worker in the olive fields, who seduces his best friend's sweetheart, plays the guitar with native genius, tries to blow up a dam, plots against the village priest, endures torture and a year in prison, gets free in time to burn a great store of corn, become reconciled with...
...take a hurried look forward to the future, a hasty glance back at what they had accomplished in the first six months of the fourth year of Recovery. As a whole, the steel industry earned more money than in any first-half period since 1930. It was employing more workers (500,000), paying them more per hour (67?), than in 1929. Individual pay envelopes were not so fat as in the New Era because the work was spread thinner, but the steelmasters were already preparing for longer hours. Fortnight ago U. S. Steel, followed by other companies, announced time...
Early last summer Amoskeag began closing down, mill by mill. By last September every gate was locked, every worker on the street. As dust gathered on Amoskeag's 20,000 cotton looms, the citizens of Manchester endured a bad winter, a cheerless spring. Amoskeag workers who had been getting $13 a week from the mills were thrown on relief at $2 per week with $1 more for each family...
...Forum's Editor Leach, Review of Reviews' Editor Page and their confreres of Scribner's, the Sunday Worker and North American Review had been alert followers of U. S. Governmental doings, they would never have been taken in by Pledge Brown at all. Last May Alaska's Delegate to Congress Anthony Joseph Dimond filled more than four pages of the Congressional Record with an expose of Brown's career. After leaving Alaska, where he was arrested for stealing a woman's purse, this extraordinary opportunist, whose full name, according to Delegate Dimond, is Wilbur...