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...goes on to declare for "monetary management," for conservation of the land and natural resources, for the cooperative organization of producers "such as farmers and workingmen." He finds that "there is no reason why some part of the wealth produced should not be taken by taxation and used to insure and indemnify human beings against their personal losses in industry." Mr. Lippmann does not say whether he regards the Social Security Board as an agency of overhead control or a method of social control by the common law. He indorses public works, the development of water power, insurance against industrial...
...Pointing out that the law permitted Capital to combine 50% of the steel industry in one corporation, most of the shoe machinery industry in another, he wrote: "It would, indeed, be strange if Congress had by the same Act willed to deny to members of a small craft of workingmen the right to cooperate in simply refraining from work, when that course was the only means of self-protection against a combination of militant and powerful employers...
...This was a great rubbish heap-this factory!" the Nazi roared in Windsor's ear. "It was worse than a rubbish heap because it was fouled by communists. And then The Leader Adolf Hitler came along and all that was changed! Look at the happy workingmen! LOOK AT THEM...
...Edward Francis McGrady, 65, who is Franklin Roosevelt's chief practical executive in the Department of Labor and who returned last week from assuring the International Labor Conference at Geneva that the world's workingmen have a strong will to peace (TIME, June 21), the upheavals represent simply "growing pains...
...Homer Martin was called to the pulpit of small Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City. Most of his 400 parishioners were employes of the nearby Chevrolet plant, but a few were employers. At them Preacher Martin hammered Sunday after Sunday with his gospel of justice for workingmen. He protested publicly against the 75?-per-day wages which some members of his flock were paying, invited labor organizers to speak from his pulpit. Irate deacons soon gave him a choice of quitting his agitating or quitting his pulpit. He quit the latter, went to work for Chevrolet...