Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skilled workers were now needed to do the work that one had done before. Result: many a project is stalled, many an unskilled worker is left idle by a shortage of skilled labor. From the U.S.S. Houston last fortnight, Presidential Guest Hopkins abolished the rule requiring 90% of workers on PWA projects to be drawn from relief rolls. In New York City, needing 12,000 skilled workers, WPA officials planned to call in non-relief workmen if the shortage was not quickly supplied by volunteers from home relief...
...tern, stepped colorless, unimaginative Major Clement Attlee, an acceptable parliamentary wheelhorse, just the man to lose a General Election. In disgust left-wing British Laborites, the small but vigorous Independent Labor Party, manifestoed: "The real issue lies solely between two imperialisms in Africa-British Imperialism and Italian Imperialism. Workers, beware! Sanctions may develop into war and a conflict between imperialisms is not worth the life of a single worker...
...erudite aggregation who predict revolution without advocating it. One is reminded of the classic morn when Poppea in her arrogance called Cleopatra a courtesan. Indeed, according to Mr. Strachey, it is not the communists who knock off the proverbial chip, but the fat capitalist who grinds down the worker to the depths of poverty and fifth...
...Buchman, proud as a man may be who was a Pennsylvania Lutheran welfare worker before he became an international figure, arose and said...
...qualities of the Soviet citizen is class hatred," cried Komsomolskaya Pravda. "It is a sage and profound feeling of organic hatred toward the enemy-toward all the filthy, abominable remnants of the old world, its wolfish laws and fetid life. . . . Irreconcilable, inflexible, untamable hate should be nourished by every worker, by every collective farm worker, by every soldier and office employe, by every teacher and artist, because this hate is a great, heroic, sacred hate which belongs to the proletariat...