Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first rank in any like poll in 1941. Alone among U.S. newspapers since 1933, the Tribune has got its papers burned in public bonfires, its offices rotten-egged. Also unique is the range of hatred for the Tribune: it cuts across all class lines in Chicago, from stockyard worker to millionaire...
...Managing Editor Edward Scott Beck (now on the shelf). Under them the Tribune staff once included such names as Westbrook Pegler, Percy Hammond, Ring Lardner, Burton Rascoe. Present Managing Editor Pat Maloney, who flew with Rickenbacker and wears a Phi Beta Kappa key from Dartmouth, is a hard worker who got his training under Beck and Lee but lacks their independent thinking...
...Robert Ramspeck, D. Ga., ranking majority member of the House Labor Committee, was assigned to draft the measure. He said it would "prevent strikes in defense industries unless the employer wants to lose his plant or the worker wants to surrender his rights...
...within college walls the whole situation is far from clear, but a few facts and ideas do seem apparent. First of all, we can sympathize with a union member who has worked hard to help organize his union and secure bargaining rights for it, only to find that the worker in the next bunker is getting all the gains of safety measures and increased pay without doing a thing for the organization that has secured his advantages. It seems to us that the union shop is a fair compromise between the one-sidedness of the closed shop and the viciousness...
...mural jobs, done on WPA for a Greenpoint, L.I. hospital and New York's World's Fair and Riker's Island Penitentiary, got him so talked about that Manhattan's Museum of Mod ern Art decided to buy a sample of his work. A hard worker, he took time off from his WPA job to do a series of murals for Manhattan's Hotel Lexington, where he brought guffaws from hotel guests by painting New York's Mayor LaGuardia as one of the plotters of the Boston Tea Party...