Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figure "circulated" by Senator Wagner was 4,000,000 workers out of work. Secretary Davis' figure was 1,874,050. This figure which included voluntary idleness (coal strikers etc.) had been arrived at by subtracting the estimated number of persons now earning wages and salaries, from the number of earners in 1925, a year not noted for unemployment. Making no allowance for an increase in this U. S. working population since 1925, the figures suggested that for each worker now out of a job, there are 12 that have jobs...
...broad theory, I will never admit that our company broke the Jacksonville agreement ? admitting that I do not know any of the details . . ." answered Mr. Schwab. "I'm just a plain, blunt steel worker out of the mills of Pittsburgh, but no man here is more anxious to help in the situation than...
Here Sir Harry went back to his picture and after daubing a few more greases upon the glass, turned to explain his work. "I shall go on till I die. It is my work, and I am a worker. I want to get the children singing, to know my songs, and to know me, as I have their parents and their grandparents in all parts of the world. And if, in the course of this work. I happen to help some poor fellow over the top, that is my reward...
Died. Max Pine, 62, labor leader, relief worker, a founder of the Forward, famed Jewish daily; of pneumonia; in Maywood...
...revolutionary from within but as a propagandist from without. Settling first at Geneva and later in London, he wrote and labored unceasingly, with the aid of Dr. Eduard Benes, now Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. Of him Masaryk writes: "He had great initiative and was an untiring worker. . . . I naturally took the lead. . . . Politically and historically he was so well trained that . . . he was soon able to act for himself." (Thus even today President Masaryk faintly patronizes an assistant who is reckoned as the most able active diplomat in Europe and who was made chairman of an important international committee...