Word: workingman
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...TIME for April 21 you quote William H. Davis [vice chairman, National Defense Mediation Board] as saying, "When you pass compulsory legislation you make the workingman a slave, and there is no use producing defense materials for a nation of slaves, because if there is anything certain in history, it is that a national establishment which has to depend on slaves to produce its materials is inevitably destroyed...
...outlaw strikes, came one calm voice. The owner of the voice was William Hammatt Davis, vice chairman of the National Defense Mediation Board. He spoke to the House Military Affairs Committee, but his words were for the whole U.S. Said he: "When you pass compulsory legislation you make the workingman a slave, and there is no use producing defense materials for a nation of slaves, because if there is anything certain in history, it is that a national establishment which has to depend on slaves to produce its materials is inevitably destroyed...
...again was the recognition of relations of cooperation for great and common ends." Editorialized London's Express: "All skeins of diplomacy, all military feats, panics, rumors, sorties and full assaults recede into their proper perspective behind the one dominant figure of this war. This figure is the British workingman, his arms bared, his muscles flexed, and the sweat upon his brow...
...Roman Catholic Church ranges from plain people to prelates. A prelate who takes a particular interest in plain people is the Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil, Senior Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago. Shrewd, kindly, soft-spoken Bishop Sheil realizes that the workingman is the backbone of his Church, last year made headlines by supporting C. I. O.'s organization of the packinghouse workers in Chicago's stockyards. Last winter the Bishop did some organizing himself. Last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel the directors of Bishop Sheil's Industrial Areas Foundation (who include John L. Lewis...
...poll which seemed to show that labor scarcely knew its avowed friends from its alleged enemies: "Extraordinary is the fact that so many names that are prominently identified, pro or con, with labor in politics and labor in industry should be so far on the fringe of the workingman's consciousness as to evoke a 'Don't know...