Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time since the founding in 1886 (save only one year, 1895), the American Federation of Labor was without Samuel Gompers as its President. He had been a worker and leader of workers from youth. Born in 1850, the eldest son of Dutch Jews, he came to the U. S. when only 15, already a cigarmaker by trade. A year later, he helped to organize the Cigarmakers' International Union and became its first Secretary. He took part in the formation of both the New York State Federation and the American Federation of Labor...
...tall, slight man with the ready smile?gay, brave to the point of recklessness, with features in no wise handsome, but none the less attractive?is in reality a monarch beloved by his people. Much more than his embittered enemies may he be called a democrat of Spain. Hard-worker, severely earnest in fulfilling his responsibilities, unusually tactful and liberal-minded, rapid and accurate in his decisions, he combines to a high degree of perfection those qualities of intellect for which he has earned recognition. If he has had his affaires?and he has?they have in no way diminished...
...behalf of the delegates, a Near East Relief worker presented Dr. Speer with a gavel. The worker declared this gavel had been made by children of Nazareth in a little shop across the street from the site of Joseph's carpenter shop...
...Croatian parents?farming peasants? as a boy he wandered the fields, tending sheep, carving in wood. The long hours alone with his fleecy flock did much to develop in him the curious individuality which has always been his notable characteristic. At 18, he was apprenticed to a marble worker; and, a few years later, went to Vienna and took up the study of Art. There he fell under the influence of Franz Metzner, Austrian master. From that time on, his success was assured. His reputation gradually swept Europe. The chief characteristics of Mestrovic's work are a rigid simplicity...
...population has not begun to strip the overflowing bread-basket; elsewhere laborers in millions are deprived of all but the barest minimum, as the limit of population has been reached or even overstepped. In America competition is strong, but it is competition for the best fruits of industry; abroad workers compete for the mere right to survive. Decidedly, foreign laborers, made desperate by economic inevitabilities, are ready to strike out for new Utopias; but third-party leaders in America need not expect the well-fed and well-flivvered worker to rally round specious shibboleths of discontent. It's only lean...