Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condition of the Southern cotton mill worker is very much better than it was a generation ago when he had no work at all. . . . When they talk about $12 a week, they do not tell you about the free homes, the good country food, water and light for nothing and the palaces they live in compared with the mountain homes from which they came. . . . You are dealing with a backward people who had to learn industry from the ground up. . . . Perhaps children do work, but in juvenile vagrancy North Carolina is so far ahead of Ohio there is no comparison...
Whatever shoe there is in it was last week put upon the other foot by a Mrs. Annabelle Young, church worker. She petitioned New Haven's Board of Aldermen to pass an ordinance obliging all girls of New Haven over twelve years of age to wear stockings in public or court arrest. Said Worker Young: "A splendid body of students come here each year. . . . I love young people and want to protect them against themselves...
What should Judge Barnhill decide? If ever a judge had cause to let his personal feelings influence his decision, it was Judge Barnhill at that moment, for he had just been handed a cartoon from the New York Daily Worker, Communist sheet, depicting him as a fat ogre dripping gore. Judicious, big-minded, he smiled tolerantly at this libel on his integrity by friends of the defense?and 20 minutes later granted the defense's request for a change of venue. Fortunate were the defendants that somebody was not punished for contempt of court. The case was moved to Charlotte...
...excuse to further pauperize the henchmen of the favored politician. We, unless soon relieved of their means of support, shall have an indigent population as fatal to progress as England's "Dole" receivers. If left to ourselves I really believe we can work out these problems. But every worker amongst us is soon discouraged at seeing a truckload of five husky young men drive up to a homestead, two men reach for and pick perhaps one pepper, then the crew and their transportation hunt a tree for shade and well earned rest. I sincerely hope our Senator fails...
...Douarch. Said he, last week: "We attempt no defense of hare liquor, but wine containing 10% of alcohol moderately and conservatively consumed, particularly at mealtime, can have no noxious effects In addition to being a stimulant, it is an excellent aliment for the manual as well as the intellectua worker...