Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Misfortune has dogged President Hoover's North Carolina appointments. When he tried to reward that State for its 1928 vote by elevating Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker of Charlotte to the U. S. Supreme Court, the Senate tore his nominee to bits, raised unwelcome racial and labor issues, refused confirmation (TIME, March 31 et seq.). Last week it seemed likely that the outcome of the President's second attempt to do the Old North State a political favor would be much the same. Observers began to wonder who was responsible for the White House's political advice on North Carolina...
Both Wall Street and Walnut Street were arrested by the series' title The Red Trade Menace, and startled by certain headlines: Famished Moscow Short All Food Except Bread; Red Railroads Collapse; Reds Use Forced Labor In Forests; Russia Ships Coal Here and Sells Below Cost...
...some Soviet timber is cut by "forced labor," but of a peculiar kind. Diarist Knickerbocker reported that these cutters appear to receive the same wages as other Soviet woodsmen. They are forced not to chop wood but to live in certain forest regions where such labor is the only sort in demand...
Railroads made much Washington news last week. The Interstate Commerce Commission issued its annual report. Timing their outcry to coincide with the opening of Congress, rail executives announced their legislative demands for relief from "unfair competition." Labor assembled to advance its six-hour-day program. The Senate killed legislation to regulate interstate bus traffic. Pennsylvania R. R., disguised as a holding company, was ordered to drop its Wabash and Lehigh Valley stock in the interest of larger merger plans...
Chief of the difficulties however has been with native labor. If orientals could be imported, rubbermen think the project might succeed. As it is, even the high Ford wage-scale has not attracted more than 2,000 where 5,000 are wanted. Riots and strikes have broken out; hospitals have been and are busy. A writer in India-Rubber Journal (London) last fortnight said liquor consumption on the plantation has increased 1,000%, a cabaret has opened adjacent to it. Rubbermen last week said the Ford plantation's closing down was only a matter of days...