Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memphis last week Rev. Claude C. Williams heard that a Negro sharecropper named Frank Weems had been flogged to death in Earle, Ark. by unidentified vigilantes. Preacher Williams and plump Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis socialite and social worker, got into an automobile, started out for the funeral. They never got there. As they sat in their car in front of an Earle drugstore, sipping Coca-Colas, six well-dressed men drove up, seized them, commandeered their car, forced them to drive a mile outside town...
Coming back from Geneva to Paris, as soon as he heard that "in principle" the great majority of strikes seemed to have been settled locally, Trade Union Boss Léon Jouhaux estimated that the wage increases, the shortening of the worker's week to 40 hours and the enforced improvement of working conditions must increase French production costs by at least 35%-and they are already among the highest in the world, most other countries having cheapened their prices by cheapening their money. Unquestionably this week Le Peuple Souverain thought they had won higher wages in gold standard...
Steel is the great, historic U. S. industry that Labor has never been able to organize. For the past eight months two factions within the American Federation of Labor-President William Green's conservative craft unionists and United Mine Worker John Llewellyn Lewis' progressive industrial unionists-have been at deadlock over the question of Labor's future form of organization, and Labor's future leadership. It was agreed that the man who maneuvered himself into position for the first dash over Steel's frontier would have a heavy advantage over his opponent, the chance...
...late Inventor Charles Proteus Steinmetz with whom Electrical Engineer Doherty worker for three years in General Electric Co.'s research laboratories, fostered no political beliefs...
When Vasile Foar, a onetime railroad shop worker, was 35, a strike occurred in Garrett. Ind. machine shops of Baltimore & Ohio R.R. Vasile Foar acted as foreman of a crew of strikebreakers. In return for his services the road promised him work for the rest of his life. That...