Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such education can be spread widely through the rank and file, industry may at last proceed by the rule of economic reason. Arbitration boards, wage-fixing commissions, cooperative movements will always be temporary expedients, and are now too often mere sops to stop the growls of the workingman. Reforms which are to be lasting must come from within, and the unions should, for their own self-respect, be allowed to act as their own doctors. If their college lives up to expectations, their best prescription would be the establishment of Brookwood scholarships...
...than a partly union and partly non-union working body. An ultimate organization of the producers is inevitable in the economic struggle which we are facing, and I believe it is equally inevitable that such an organization will win out. The power thus thrown into the hands of the workingman will necessarily create some difficulties, but none comparable to those we are now striving against. Prices would certainly not soar upwards as has been claimed--it is the middle man that controls that...
...strikes are a means to a good end--the betterment of the living conditions of the workingman--they fill, although crudely, a certain need, and are therefore in a measure instruments of good. That they are often justified is undeniable; that they sometimes serve selfish and corrupt ends is equally true...
...worked by German laborers, with French engineers, representing the French government in charge of the men. One would naturally suppose that the war being over such a short time, a great amount of friction and hard feeling would exist between the Frenchmen and the Germans. Instead of this the workingman and the engineer have met each other halfway and have come to a surprisingly good understanding under such circumstances The result of all this is increased production, higher wages, and mutual respect...
...popular young ex-soldier in the employ of Cordways Ltd, has been discharged for repeated drunkenness, Sympathy for the difficulties that the ex-service man experiences in settling down to the hum-drum life of the workingman, impels the authorities of the firm to give the man another chance, John Cordways the head of the Board of Directors, who takes an interest in the minor transactions of the business quite surprising in such a great captain of industry, when reviewing the case refuses to be lenient and the man is definitely dismissed. Everybody from John's flancee, Lady Clarissa...