Word: migrants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...available? In the survey, a majority of Europeans with opinions declare that they are ready for such limitations on national sovereignty. Enthusiasm varies, country by country, on these points: Frenchmen (whose tradition is to stay at home) are not quite so willing to open the doors to migrant foreign labor as Italians (whose tradition includes working abroad). Britons are not so anxious to merge the pound sterling with continental currencies; they are reluctant to see a Western Union army in which British troops would have to serve under non-British commanders. Some fear what removal of tariffs just now would...
...Oklahoma harvest, part of the greatest wheat crop in U.S. history. The Department of Agriculture raised its estimates of its size once more, this time to 1,409,000,000 bushels. The job would not have been done without the cutters who have taken the place of the old migrant harvest hands. The business was born during the war, when wheat farmers expanded their acreage far beyond what they could harvest with their own machinery (TIME, July...
...absentee industry served by seasonal labor. He urged the Territory to claim a bigger share of the wealth taken from its resources. He asked Alaskans to set up a general territorial property tax, corporate net income tax, a personal income tax which would tap the salaries of 12,000 migrant fish and cannery workers and thousands of other laborers who took their salaries to Seattle each autumn. He deplored the fact that Alaskans could not vote for a U.S. President, could not send Senators and a Congressman to Washington to fight their battles. He argued for statehood-and the abolition...
...diatribe and disgust. Kingsblood Royal is not another onslaught on the old established fact of Southern discrimination; it is a blow at the smug white of the Northern cities-at the man who merely dabbled in race prejudice until the industrial needs of World War II caused thousands of migrant Negro workmen to blacken his lily-white doorstep...
...Gonzalez Videla had on his desk a bill, passed by Congress' rightist majority, designed to block Concha's efforts and to maintain existing farm labor conditions. The bill restricted each union to the fundo (estate) where its members worked, forbade them to federate, and banned the troublemaking migrant workers from membership. Cream of the clauses was one stipulating that only literate workers could join. This barred 90% of the campesinos...