Word: conservationism
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Steel. The foremost U. S. industry, Steel, offered a 40-hour week and minimum pay ranging from $10 in the South to $16 in the North and West. Collective bargaining was provided by means of company unions set up for that purpose-an "open shop" provision which the American Federation...
. . . The undersigned is in command of one of the Civilian Conservation Corps work camps and can speak from first-hand knowledge of the workings of the Corps.
The building up and, as is the case in many instances, the rebuilding of character and stamina that has begun to deteriorate over a period of enforced idleness and hanging about street corners is not "useless." This alone would be worth the effort the President has made in launching the...
The general's helper, Dudley Gates, labored to aid lumbermen with their code, got them to include in it Roosevelt's pet, forest conservation. Helper Earl Dean Howard labored with the badly disorganized clothing industry (which was favored last week by a strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
¶ At San Juan, President Roosevelt's Governor General Robert Hayes Gore, father of nine, created a commotion by suggesting to Puerto Ricans that, as their New Deal, landed estates might be split up, rented to small farmers (see p. 14). ¶ To Havana, where U. S. Ambassador Welles...