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Just before quitting his job, Lasser helped organize the Lower West Side Unemployed League in Manhattan, merged it with two other local organizations, managed to keep the leadership. Unofficially backed by the American Federation of Labor, he organized the Eastern Federation of Unemployed in 1934, last year formed his Workers...
Townsend men held up their light wash pants with wide suspenders, wore no coats over their rumpled shirts; the women wore plain print dresses, outmoded hats, sensible shoes. At week's end Cleveland merchants complained that they had bought record quantities of picture postcards, almost nothing else. But there...
Sirs: I am getting distinctly fatigued with all the furor, perpetrated by the well-meaning uninformed and the less altruistic, dues-collecting labor agitators, about the sad plight of the ill-fed, downtrodden sharecropper [TIME, June 29]. Aside from exceptional and infrequent disastrous years of severe drought, floods and the...
As late as 1933, John Lewis was little more than the hard-boiled head of a hard-boiled union. Less than 25% of the nation's soft coal was dug under union contract. More than half of U.M.W.'s 300,000 membership probably failed to pay dues. Under...
National Editorial Association was founded 51 years ago in the interest of the "little fellows" of U. S. journalism: editors and owners of weeklies and semi-weeklies of modest, local circulation. The Association grew to include some 3,500 members, set up a Washington lobby to see that their cherished...