Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metal trades department incorporated a threatening tone in its annual report by urging Federal relief measures for the winter ''to prevent cold and hungry workmen from being driven to desperation." The building tradesmen, however, were chiefly concerned with a jurisdictional problem: carpenters in Philadelphia were making employers let them do work which the A. F. of L. Board of Jurisdictional Awards had allotted to the elevator constructors. President Frank Feeney of the elevator constructors' union interrupted the meeting to call his men off their Philadelphia jobs...
...Commons in July because he refused to leave the Chamber until forcibly ejected (TIME, July 13), attempted to lead a parade of jobless dole-drawers through the streets of Glasgow last week. Police inspectors were waiting for him, told him that he could not march. The crowd of sullen workmen in grimy caps grew & grew. There were angry murmurs. Suddenly riot flared. Mobsters smashed store windows and began looting. Brickbats, cobblestones, beer bottles whanged through the air. Mounted police clattered down the High Street swinging their truncheons. John McGovern was dragged off to jail, charged with "threatening violence...
...another group will be sent over next year depends entirely upon how successful these men are. In the past Russia has sent for American engineers to come over to act as foremen, and although the Americans mix with the Russians, they do not live under the same conditions. Russian workmen supervised by Russians will now be the aim of the government, and as soon as the 28 men now here return, they will immediately be given engineering jobs in Russian factories and mines much as they would have, had they been to a Russian university...
...protection of employes the following plans shall be adopted by all of these companies: a) A workmen's compensation act . . . modeled after the best features of the laws which have been enacted by the several States, b) All employes . . . may, after two years of service . . . and before the expiration of five years of service, be covered by life and disability insurance." Cost of the policy would be shared equally by the employe and the company or companies for which he worked, even if he changed industries. The employer would not share the premium of a policy over...
Observers found in the Swope Plan many an idea already in practical application. For the dissemination of association advertising, mutual information and in some cases propaganda, there have long been trade associations (among florists, bottlers, copper and brass pipe manufacturers, tailors, lumbermen, etc. etc.). Most States (44) have workmen's compensation acts. Seventeen States have adopted a form of old age insurance. The Carnegie Foundation provides (through its member colleges) 9,430 teachers with pensions much in the manner President Swope suggested. And last year (TIME, July 28, 1930), President Swope announced an unemployment insurance program for General Electric...