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House in the town of Fowler, Indiana, where Tip Estes' employer lives. He rents this house and hires Estes to work one of his farms on a monthly wage basis

House in the town of Fowler, Indiana, where Tip Estes' employer lives....

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Author and administrator of Wagner Labor Act go into a huddle. Washington, D.C., Jan. 27. Immediately following the blast put on the National Labor Relations Board today by Senator Burke, Democrat of Nebraska, before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, Senator Robert E. Wagner (right), author of the Wagner Labor Act, was snapped as he went into a huddle with Chairman J. Warren Madden of the NLRB. Burke charged there has been more strife and misunderstanding between employer and employee than ever before since enforcement of the Wagner Act has been placed in the hands of the NLR, 1/27/38

Author and administrator of Wagner Labor Act go into a huddle. Washing...

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Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. He wasn't needed any more by former "employer." The son of his new employer said his father used to have tenants but that they "skinned" him too often by moving out on him all the time. So he just hires by the day now. Near Madison, Georgia

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. H...

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Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Employer resistance to the hiring of women workers in war industries is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, and this young employee of a Midwest aircraft motor plant embodies the reasons for this change of heart. With no previous industrial experience, she mastered the operation of this compressed-air machine in record time, and is now polishing airplane motor parts with speed and skill

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Employer resistance to the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tip Estes, hired man on a Benton County, Indiana farm, was promised this house to live in, but the employer has now rented it to the manager of the Farm Bureau Coop Association

Tip Estes, hired man on a Benton County, Indiana farm, was promised th...

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Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. He wasn't needed any more by former "employer." The son of his new employer said his father used to have tenants but that they "skinned" him too often by moving out on him all the time. So he just hires by the day now. Near Madison, Georgia

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. H...

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"Policeman Wilkes, noticing...that the well-known rouges, Mason and Slidell, were about to pawn some of their late Employer's property at Messrs. Bull, Crapaud & Co.'s shop, kept....look-out...and nabbed them in the nick of time"

"Policeman Wilkes, noticing...that the well-known rouges, Mason and Sl...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1861 Nov. 30, p. 768, v. 5. Reference copy may be in LOT 4405. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

U.S. Chamber attacks Labor Act at Capitol. Washington, D.C., June 26. B.C. Heacock, President of the Caterpillar Tractor Co. of Peoria, Ill., and Chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Committee on Manufacture, told a Senate and Education and Labor Committee today that the chamber favored amendments to the Labor Act to accomplish these purposes--to preserve the right of freedom speech, to grant the employer the right to petition the NLRB for a determination of the representatives selected by his employees for collective bargaining to prohibit coercion of employees from any course, and to repeal the closed-shop proviso'

U.S. Chamber attacks Labor Act at Capitol. Washington, D.C., June 26. ...

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Production. Subchasers. An old shipwright gives his skill and experience to the building of subchasers in an Eastern shipyard. He has helped to turn out many oyster and fishing boats, and worked at shipbuilding in the last war. He has done much to help his present employer earn the coveted Navy "E"

Production. Subchasers. An old shipwright gives his skill and experien...

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Wages an Hour Div. of Apparel Industry Committee met today at Raleigh Hotel to try to establish a minimum wage above the present 25 cents an hour. Lft. to rt. Joseph P. McCurdy, President of Maryland Fed. of Labor. Arthur J. Patton, retired employer. Charles Ray, retired manufacturer and former member of Conn. Minimum Wage Board. David Dubinsky, President of International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Sumner H. Slichter, Professor of Business Economics at Harvard. Louis B. Hopkins, Pres. of Wabash College. S.L. Hoffman, active employer. Seated: Burton E. Oppenheim, Chief of Industry Committee Division; Louis E. Kirstein, Chairman of Committee and Vice Pres. of William Filenes Sons Co. Inc. Delos Walker, Vice Chairman, and Vice Pres. of R.H. Macy and Co

Wages an Hour Div. of Apparel Industry Committee met today at Raleigh ...

A group of men standing around a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General ... More

War Labor Board anthracite hearing. Labor members, seated at the left of conference table, and employer members, seated at the right, hear testimony of striking coal miners at the hearing on the anthracite strike before the National War Labor Board, January 15, 1943

War Labor Board anthracite hearing. Labor members, seated at the left ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. He wasn't needed any more by former "employer." The son of his new employer said his father used to have tenants but that they "skinned" him too often by moving out on him all the time. So he just hires by the day now. Near Madison, Georgia

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. H...

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Washing facilities in the home of Elmer Johnson, hired farmhand. Near Battle Ground, Indiana. His employer has a bathroom in a modern house

Washing facilities in the home of Elmer Johnson, hired farmhand. Near ...

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Wages [an] Hour Div. of Apparel Industry Committee met today at Raleigh Hotel to try to establish a minimum wage above the present 25 cents an hour. Lft. to rt. Joseph P. McCurdy, President of Maryland Fed. of Labor. Arthur J. Patton, retired employer. Charles Ray, retired manufacturer and former member of Conn. Minimum Wage Board. David Dubinsky, President of International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Sumner H. Slichter, Professor of Business Economics at Harvard. Louis B. Hopkins, Pres. of Wabash College. S.L. Hoffman, active employer. Seated: Burton E. Oppenheim, Chief of Industry Committee Division; Louis E. Kirstein, Chairman of Committee and Vice Pres. of William Filenes Sons Co. Inc. Delos Walker, Vice Chairman, and Vice Pres. of R.H. Macy and Co.

Wages [an] Hour Div. of Apparel Industry Committee met today at Raleig...

A group of men standing around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. He wasn't needed any more by former "employer." The son of his new employer said his father used to have tenants but that they "skinned" him too often by moving out on him all the time. So he just hires by the day now. Near Madison, Georgia

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. H...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. He wasn't needed any more by former "employer." The son of his new employer said his father used to have tenants but that they "skinned" him too often by moving out on him all the time. So he just hires by the day now. Near Madison, Georgia

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. H...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Employer: I regret having to let you go, Miss Keys, but my wife doesn't seem to like you, and-er-you see, I-er-can't discharge my wife

Employer: I regret having to let you go, Miss Keys, but my wife doesn'...

(DLC/PP-1938:0086). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 39:205 (March 13, 1902).

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. He wasn't needed any more by former "employer." The son of his new employer said his father used to have tenants but that they "skinned" him too often by moving out on him all the time. So he just hires by the day now. Near Madison, Georgia

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. H...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Employer resistance to the hiring of women workers in war industries is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, and this young employee of a Midwest aircraft motor plant embodies the reasons for this change of heart. With no previous industrial experience, she mastered the operation of this compressed-air machine in record time, and is now polishing airplane motor parts with speed and skill

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Employer resistance to the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. He wasn't needed any more by former "employer." The son of his new employer said his father used to have tenants but that they "skinned" him too often by moving out on him all the time. So he just hires by the day now. Near Madison, Georgia

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. H...

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Employer and employee well represented as committee meets to consider minimum wage for textile workers. Washington, D.C., Oct. 11. Employer and employee members of the First Industry Committee under the new Wage-Hour Law met with Chairman Donald Nelson and Wage-hour Administrator Elmer Andrews today to consider a minimum wage for more than 1,300,000 workers in the textile industry. Pictured, left to right, are: Donald Nelson, Administrator Andrews, and Sidney Hillman, President of the Amalgamated Clothing workers, standing are R.R. West, (left) Danville, Virginia, and John R. Cheatham, Griffin, GA., both employers, 101138

Employer and employee well represented as committee meets to consider ...

A group of men sitting around a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General i... More

Employer at creamery carrying milk cans. Creamery, San Angelo, Texas

Employer at creamery carrying milk cans. Creamery, San Angelo, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Henry I. Harriman, President of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, told the Senate Finance Committee that workers should join employer [...] in contributing to the proposed federal unemployment insurance fund. 2/14/35

Henry I. Harriman, President of the Chamber of Commerce of the United ...

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camblair used to work as a lens grinder in an optical firm. His employer said he had the makings of a good lens grinder

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camblair used to work as a len...

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant Camblair used to work as a lens grinder in an optical firm. His employer said he had the makings of a good lens grinder

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant Camblair used to work as a lens grind...

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Before Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 16. Charles D. Hilles, Director of the New York Life Insurance Company, and also Resident Agent for the Employer Liability Assurance Corp., today explained to the Monopoly Committee investigating insurance setups the relations between the two companies. When questioned Hilles admitted that business had increased materially for the Assurance Corp., since he became a member of the New York Life board. He told the committee that nearly 5000 pieces of New York Life property are covered by the assurance company, 2-16-39

Before Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 16. Charles D. Hille...

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camblair used to work as a lens grinder in an optical firm. His employer said he had the makings of a good lens grinder

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camblair used to work as a len...

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Employer and employee well represented as committee meets to consider minimum wage for textile workers. Washington, D.C., Oct. 11. Employer and employee members of the First Industry Committee under the new Wage-Hour Law met with Chairman Donald Nelson and Wage-hour Administrator Elmer Andrews today to consider a minimum wage for more than 1,300,000 workers in the textile industry. Pictured, left to right, are: Donald Nelson, Administrator Andrews, and Sidney Hillman, President of the Amalgamated Clothing workers, standing are R.R. West, (left) Danville, Virginia, and John R. Cheatham, Griffin, GA., both employers, 10/11/38

Employer and employee well represented as committee meets to consider ...

A group of men sitting around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. He wasn't needed any more by former "employer." The son of his new employer said his father used to have tenants but that they "skinned" him too often by moving out on him all the time. So he just hires by the day now. Near Madison, Georgia

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. H...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Garfield's death warrant. That letter in which he advocates an extended Chinese immigration --- He advises that employer's union of Lynn, Mass., "that the question of employees is only a question of private and corporate economy" ---Read, Workin

Garfield's death warrant. That letter in which he advocates an extende...

At head of title Advertiser Extra. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 160, Folder 14b.

Workmen's Compensation versus Employer's Liability; An Address By Crystal Eastman

Workmen's Compensation versus Employer's Liability; An Address By Crys...

American Association for Labor Legislation sponsors meeting with Crystal Eastman, member, New York State Employers' Liability Commission to discuss pending legislation on workmen's compensation for industrial accidents

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. He wasn't needed any more by former "employer." The son of his new employer said his father used to have tenants but that they "skinned" him too often by moving out on him all the time. So he just hires by the day now. Near Madison, Georgia

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. H...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Refrigerators to bombers. Before conversion of her employer's plant to war production, Gertie Saurborn worked silver-soldering tubes on float cases for refrigerators. She still works for the same employer but now she tests regulators which her firm makes for use in Army and Navy bombers

Refrigerators to bombers. Before conversion of her employer's plant to...

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Members hear Nebraska Senator flat National Labor Relations Board. Washington, D.C., Jan. 27. Members of the National Labor Relations Board listen intently as Senator Burke, Democrat of Nebraska, today charged before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee that enforcement of the Wagner Labor Act by the NLRB has produced more strife and misunderstanding between employee and employer than ever existed before. Senator Burke made the charge as the basis for his demand for a Senate investigation of the Board. Left to right can be seen: Edward S. Smith, Donald Wakefield Smith, and J. Warren Madden, Chairman of the Board, 1/27/38

Members hear Nebraska Senator flat National Labor Relations Board. Was...

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Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. He wasn't needed any more by former "employer." The son of his new employer said his father used to have tenants but that they "skinned" him too often by moving out on him all the time. So he just hires by the day now. Near Madison, Georgia

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. H...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More