Word: workmen
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...such sensational procedure would take time and would mean that the hearing would afford an opportunity to try the case in the court of public opinion, which is something the motor car executives are anxious to do. For they could prove that as employers they have not exploited their workmen either on hours of work or rates of wages...
Rarely has there been a debate with official data on collective bargaining. The public has been led to believe that it involves merely the question of letting the workmen organize...
...that "company" unions are really company controlled. General Johnson has in his public speeches made the same accusation. This has encouraged the labor leaders. It ought to be a simple matter to determine whether a group of workmen want to be represented by walking delegates from the outside or by some of their own number. But many a dispute has arisen as to how the election shall be supervised. Then comes the all important problem of campaigning. Shall the employer be denied the right to put before his own employees the case as he sees it, the advantages...
...labor leaders realize that workmen have been persuaded to join company unions; in fact, there are nearly four times as many workers in that type of organization today as in the A. F. of L's National Unions. This, however, in being used by Senator Wagner and of here to prove that the companies have been more active an organizers and auaders than...
...United States has started to climb out of a depression an outbreak of strikes has occurred. It happened in 1879 and again in the '90's and only the Government by the use of troops was able to quell the disturbances. The right to strike is sacred to workmen...