Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, Hoover is a constructive worker. He has his eye on the job, and he doesn't deal in platitudes. He takes concrete measures for betterment. He is no mere theorist, no mere social worker who might be led astray by fine ideals, for he is a man who is accustomed to dealing with the great men of the world...
...Constructive Worker...
...labor problems," said Professor Frankfurter, "reduce themselves into two fundamentals; in the first place there is the attitude of mind of the worker towards his work and that of the employer and the public towards the worker. It is a too common notion that the worker is a hired hand depending on the good nature or the self interest of the employer. Opposed to this notion is the conception of co-operation, co-operation not only in money making, but in invention and in enterprise. There must be a frank acceptance of this change of status of the present...
Technology, along with the other colleges of New England, realizes that the Des Moines Student Volunteer Conference was a hoax and, except from the missionary worker's point of view, was an utter failure. There is no use in crying over spilt milk (in this case amounting to several thousand dollars) but it would be well to find out who was at fault in giving our delegation a false impression of the conference, so that we may avoid a repetition of the blunder...
Bishop McConnell of Denver tried to answer the other questions. "The hardest thing the field worker has to contend with," he said, "is the example of his own country. Every time that a man puts a piece of chocolate in his mouth, he is exploiting the raw products of Africa. We must put humanity above production, and see in Mexico 15,000,000 human beings and not merely copper, and oil, and the possibility of rubber plantations...