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Charges that John L. Lewis 'saw to' the discharge of men to coerce workers. Washington, D.C., Dec. 13. Joe Ozanic, International President of the Progressive Mine Workers of America, testified before the Smith Committee investigating the National Labor Relations Board. He charged that John L. Lewis, as President of the United Mine Workers of America, caused the discharge of five men in the Progressive Union, to 'bring pressure' on other employees to leave the Progressive and join the United. 'The United Mine Workers--and if I've got to use the name of the dictator, John Lewis himself--brought pressure on the employees to force them to sign a petition. They refused. He then saw to it that the coal company discharged five men. The others then did sign the petition resigning from the Progressive Union and pledging loyalty to the United. They did it to save their jobs,' he told the committee

Charges that John L. Lewis 'saw to' the discharge of men to coerce wor...

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There are jobs for you, if trained Complete free course in household training : You learn meal planning , cooking, table service, laundry, cleaning and child care.

There are jobs for you, if trained Complete free course in household t...

Poster announcing opportunities and programs for persons with certain domestic skills and those wishing to acquire skills in homemaking. Date stamped on verso: Jul 20 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster C... More

Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is a victim of "priorities unemployment." It might have been James Smith, rubber worker. It might have been anybody. The "priorities unemployment" is part of a process of changing over, of retooling. And it's a temporary part, in most cases. Defense industries are expanding. In the long run, the defense program will make more jobs than it will break. It has already created 4,000,000 new jobs and there will be 2,500,000 more by April 1942. Production skills are needed for defense, John Jones'skills, James Smith's skills. How does "man meet job?"

Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is a ...

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Painters working on dormitories at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for defense workers. Dormitories are being rented to men working in certain specified defense industries and the men must have been living in either substandard housing or who have been commuting long distances to their jobs. San Diego, California

Painters working on dormitories at the FSA (Farm Security Administrati...

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Caguas, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer who also does odd carpentry jobs for people in his neighborhood

Caguas, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer who also does odd carpent...

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Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is a victim of "priorities unemployment." It might have been James Smith, rubber worker. It might have been anybody. The "priorities unemployment" is part of a process of changing over, of retooling. And it's a temporary part, in most cases. Defense industries are expanding. In the long run, the defense program will make more jobs than it will break. It has already created 4,000,000 new jobs and there will be 2,500,000 more by April 1942. Production skills are needed for defense, John Jones'skills, James Smith's skills. How does "man meet job?"

Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is a ...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The General Electric Company at Erie, Pennsylvania, employs approximately 8000 workers. It anticipates additional employment of some 4000 by next year. Only some twenty-five percent of these have to be imported, for local labor is being trained for these jobs at government vocational training schools. This will prevent the disruption of the community's economic life which would be caused by an over-large immigration of labor

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The General Electric Company at E...

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Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is a victim of "priorities unemployment." It might have been James Smith, rubber worker. It might have been anybody. The "priorities unemployment" is part of a process of changing over, of retooling. And it's a temporary part, in most cases. Defense industries are expanding. In the long run, the defense program will make more jobs than it will break. It has already created 4,000,000 new jobs and there will be 2,500,000 more by April 1942. Production skills are needed for defense, John Jones'skills, James Smith's skills. How does "man meet job?"

Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is a ...

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Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mounting a navy flying ship at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas, a former department store girl, is one of many women who are taking over jobs to release men for military service. She is a civil service crowler in the assembly and repair department at the base

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mounting a navy flying ship at ...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Testing plane parts for hardness after they come out of the heat treating ovens at the Inglewood, California plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. These workers in one of the inspection cribs illustrate the company's method of using men and women interchangeably on many jobs. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Testing plane parts for har...

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Conversion. Safety razor plant. Operation of surface grinder in production of V-blocks for the machine that makes America's war machine. Women are rapidly being drafted to fill men's jobs on light-duty machines as this

Conversion. Safety razor plant. Operation of surface grinder in produc...

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.

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Anna C. Marchand is one of the hundreds of young Negro women who have been given jobs in war production plants in recent months. She is shown undersizing bushing in the aircraft factory of a large Eastern navy yard

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Anna C. Marchand is one of the hund...

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Transformer manufacture. Fitting up outer parts of giant transformers is one of the skilled jobs done by employees of a large Eastern electrical company. The demand for power transformers has increased in proportion to America's ever-increasing war production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Fitting up outer parts of giant transformers ...

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Training. Brooklyn Aviation Center. At the Brooklyn Aviation Trade Center, a student mechanic and an instructor work side by side using identical tools and performing identical operations on wing sections. The same method is employed in training beginners to work on other jobs in plane construction

Training. Brooklyn Aviation Center. At the Brooklyn Aviation Trade Cen...

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Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Hayes Prewitt and E.C. Cremeans in dormitory at Rio Grande College. They are leaving tomorrow for a dairy farm near Toledo where they have jobs

Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Hayes Prewitt and E.C. Cremeans in do...

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Final plans for the march on Washington for jobs and freedom, August 28, 1963

Final plans for the march on Washington for jobs and freedom, August 2...

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[Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912), while working in Sanders Spinning Mill, Bessemer City, N.C., August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old when it happened. His parents are now trying to make him 13 years old. The school census taken at the time of the accident makes him12 years (parents' statement) and school records say the same. His school teacher thinks that he is 12. His brother (photo 3071) is not yet 11 years old. Both of the boys worked in the mill several months before the accident. His father, (R.L. Newsom) tried to compromise with the Company when he found the boy would receive money and not the parents. The mother tried to blame the boys for getting jobs on their own hook, but she let them work several months. The aunt said "Now he's jes got to where he could be of some help to his ma an' then this happens and he can't never work no more like he oughter."]. Location: [Bessemer, North Carolina].

[Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo Octo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

An old black and white photo of two men and a woman, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

An old black and white photo of two men and a woman, West Virginia. Fa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Protest silk boycott. Washington, D.C., Jan. 28. Members of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers arriving today at Union Station today from they staged a parade to the White House as a protest against the boycott of Japanese silk. The women, three hundred strong, carried banners exhorting women to continue to wear silk hose and thus save the jobs of thousands of hosiery workers, 1/28/38

Protest silk boycott. Washington, D.C., Jan. 28. Members of the Americ...

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A black and white photo of a man and two children, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man and two children, West Virginia. Farm...

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Negro man lighting lamp in bedroom of his home near Hammond, Louisiana. He works for a strawberry grower, doing odd jobs about the place

Negro man lighting lamp in bedroom of his home near Hammond, Louisiana...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Camouflage class at N[ew] Y[ork] University, where men and women are preparing for jobs in the Army or in industry, New York, N.Y. This model has been camouflaged and photographed. The girl is correcting oversights detected in the camouflaging of a model defense plant

Camouflage class at N[ew] Y[ork] University, where men and women are p...

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Men and women make efficient operating teams on riveting and other jobs at the Douglas Aircraft plant, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Men and women make efficient operating teams on riveting and other job...

Photo shows a woman and man working on a Douglas Aircraft Company cockpit shell identified as a C-47 based on the window outline. Although sometimes called a 'biscuit bomber, 'the plane was for transport. (Sou... More

Large-scale agricultural gang labor, Mexicans and whites from the Southwest pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen. Near Meloland, Imperial Valley

Large-scale agricultural gang labor, Mexicans and whites from the Sout...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Typical of the millions of American families whose wage-earners have found real jobs for real wages for the first time in many years are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas Herbster of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Mr. Herbster says "It feels good to be back at a steady job after CWA, Works Project Administration (WPA) and other odds and ends

Typical of the millions of American families whose wage-earners have f...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Behind the mask this arc welder wears at the training school of the De Land, Florida pool is the face of one of the townsmen, familiar to many in the community as a barber, salesman, taxi driver or gas station attendant. Soon he'll be working on one of the many important war production jobs the De Land pool is doing

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Behind the mask this arc we...

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

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. The flame of welding torches has replaced the soft lights of a nightclub in Daytona Beach, Florida, which has been taken over for a vocational school to train war workers for Florida's pooling program. Pictured above is C.C. Gravelge, welding instructor, showing one of his classes the difficult art of overhead welding in preparation for their initiation into aircraft welding jobs on the De Land pool's war contract

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. The flame of welding torche...

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Moore County, Texas. Driller and two roughnecks on portable rotary drilling outfit. A mast is moved from location to location on these jobs, no derrick being erected

Moore County, Texas. Driller and two roughnecks on portable rotary dri...

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New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport units. The Marine Corps throws a lot of jobs to the jeeps. Here are some of the hard-boiled little cars lined up for servicing in the battalion garage at the New River, North Carolina base. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marine truck transport units. The Marine Co...

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

Production. B-25 bombers. Riveting frame for a B-25 bomber. The Western plant in which thousands of these warships of the air are built employs many women at jobs that once were considered exclusively the work of men. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. Riveting frame for a B-25 bomber. The Wester...

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Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Electrical prospecting for metallic minerals may be carried on by using the dual coil radiometer to measure the electro-magnetic field of the earth, as it may be influenced by the presence of an ore body. Students training for war jobs in the minerals industry, or for service with the armed forces, are shown hunting for ore. A student at the left operates the field generator. The coils about the middles of the two others are made up of many strands of copper wire which act as transformers. The student second from right watches the level on his stationary coil to measure the electro-magnetic field. After completion of training, many students will be given commissions in naval ordnance, where they will use electronics for airplane detection. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado

Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Electrical prospecting for ...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. Clearing the sand line is one of the chores that fall to the "tallow pot," or firemen of a railway locomotive. In addition jobs like this, the "tallow pot" serves up an average of eight to ten tons of coal each eight hour day to the big "hog" or locomotive. This man fires a train carrying materials for the building of TVA's Watts Bar Dam

Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. Clearing ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a railway worker, railroad, locomotive repair shop, industrial facility, early 20th-century industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad parts. Women sweepers in front of ladle into which metal from open-hearth furnace is poured, and which is then transported by crane to molds. Most new women employees are given clear-up jobs to start with in order to accustom them to factory life

Buffalo, New York. Symington-Gould, makers of tank, ship, and railroad...

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Are you a girl with star-spangled heart?--Join the WAC now!--Thousands of Army jobs need filling! / Bradshaw Crandell.

Are you a girl with star-spangled heart?--Join the WAC now!--Thousands...

Head-and-shoulders portrait of WAC, facing front, in front of U.S. flag. Promotional goal: U.S. J22. 1943 and U.S. F34.J22 1943.

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can barely make one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Lathe parts are explained to students in the trade school of the Howe Machinery Company, Passaic, New Jersey. The school trains fifty workers at a time in the production of essential war equipment. More than ninety percent secure jobs after training, some in the Howe shop

Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Lathe parts are explained ...

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Women in war. Filling station attendant. Tires need checking too? Shifting trends of employment in wartime America have opened up new jobs for such women as this young East Liverpool, Ohio, girl who has pioneered in two new fields since graduation from high school. She learned butchering first, and built up quite a reputation as a purveyor of choice cuts. Now she's one of the most efficient service station attendants in the neighborhood. Her name? Virginia Excell

Women in war. Filling station attendant. Tires need checking too? Shif...

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.

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Deep in the heart of Texas, young National Youth Administration (NYA) trainees for war jobs, watch the Navy planes they are learning to service. Wearing their regulation work clothes, these civil service apprentices of the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas, are in the vanguard of a large army of youths being trained as maintenance and repair workers at the military air station

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Deep in the heart of Texas, you...

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Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. New Liberator (B-24E) bombers await paint jobs after coming off the assembly lines at Ford's big Willow Run plant. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges on precision bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians. Ford's Willow Run Plant, Michigan

Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. New Liberator (B-...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. B-25 bombers. Soldering an end fitting to a flexible conduit that will carry some of the complicated electrical wiring of a B-25 bomber. The Western plant in which these warships of the air are built employs many women at jobs that once were considered exclusively the work of men. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. Soldering an end fitting to a flexible condu...

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U.S. Negro troops in New Guinea. Here's something unique. Two brothers, Master Sergeant Robert and Staff Sergeant Von Sapenter of the same unit in New Guniea form a crack team in handling their duties in the unit's regimental headquarters. They hold the jobs of "Regimental Sergeant Major" and "Personnel Sergeant Major," respectively

U.S. Negro troops in New Guinea. Here's something unique. Two brothers...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a refugee camp, migrant workers, 1930s, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jobs : register and vote - Posters Yanker Poster Collection

Jobs : register and vote - Posters Yanker Poster Collection

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Reverend Jessee [i.e., Jesse] Jackson's march for jobs -- around the White House / [TOH].

Reverend Jessee [i.e., Jesse] Jackson's march for jobs -- around the W...

Photograph shows Jesse Jackson speaking into a microphone, surrounded by marchers carrying signs advocating support for the Hawkins-Humphrey Bill for full employment. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.... More

Voters: if you are concerned about Israel, Russian Jewry, jobs (based on merit), a stable economy, join Concerned Citizens ...

Voters: if you are concerned about Israel, Russian Jewry, jobs (based ...

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PRESIDENT CONFERS WITH NEW HEAD VFW. WASHINGTON, D.C. OCTOBER 6. IN A CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY, COL. BERNARD W. KEARNEY, NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, ASSURED THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE THAT WORLD WAR VETERANS ARE CHIEFLY CONCERNED WITH STEADY JOBS RATHER THAN A GENERAL PENSION SYSTEM. IN A LETTER LEFT WITH THE PRESIDENT, KEARNEY SAID THAT NO ACTION WHATSOEVER WAS TAKEN ON THE GENERAL PENSION SYSTEM BY HIS ORGANIZATION AT ITS DENVER ENCAMPMENT

PRESIDENT CONFERS WITH NEW HEAD VFW. WASHINGTON, D.C. OCTOBER 6. IN A ...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. B-25 bomber. Terminals are attached to the panel of an electrical junction box for a B-25 bomber. Part of the complicated electrical wiring system centers in this box. The Western plant in which this warship of the air is built employs many women at jobs that once were considered exclusively the work of men. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bomber. Terminals are attached to the panel of an ele...

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Production. B-25 bombers. Punching rivet holes in a frame member for a B-25 bomber. The Western plant in which thousands of these warships of the air are built employs many women at jobs that once were considered exclusively the work of men. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. Punching rivet holes in a frame member for a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Single-row piston rods for Pratt and Whitney airplane engines are cleaned and inspected in a large Eastern plant. These important detail jobs are only a few of a series of systematic inspections. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Single-row piston rods...

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Women in war. Filling station attendant. Tires need checking too? Shifting trends of employment in wartime America have opened up new jobs for such women as this young East Liverpool, Ohio, girl who has pioneered in two new fields since graduation from high school. She learned butchering first, and built up quite a reputation as a purveyor of choice cuts. Now she's one of the most efficient service station attendants in the neighborhood. Her name? Virginia Excell

Women in war. Filling station attendant. Tires need checking too? Shif...

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.

Vote Socialist Workers : billions for jobs, not war, stop FBI and CIA crimes, desegregate the schools, defend abortion rights

Vote Socialist Workers : billions for jobs, not war, stop FBI and CIA ...

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Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912) while working in Sanders Spinning Mill, Bessemer City, N.C. August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into the unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old when it happened. His parents are now trying to make him 13 years old. The school census taken at the time of the accident makes him12 years (parents' statement) and school records say the same. His school teacher thinks he is 12. His brother (see photo 3071) is not yet 11 years old. Both of the boys worked in the mill several months before the accident. His father, (R.L. Newsom) tried to compromise with the Company when he found the boy would receive the money and not the parents. The mother tried to blame the boys for getting jobs on their own hook, but she let them work several months. The aunt said "Now he's jes got to where he could be of some help to his ma an' then this happens and he can't never work no more like he oughter." Location: Bessemer City, North Carolina.

Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo Octob...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Anti tax poster put up by Chamber president. Washington, D.C., Jan. 18. 'Less taxes, more jobs' reads the poster being pasted up by George H. Davis. It is the first of 25,000 such signs which will be put up all over the nation as part of a drive for reduction in taxes by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. President Davis called in the photographers today to see the first one done right

Anti tax poster put up by Chamber president. Washington, D.C., Jan. 18...

A woman standing in front of a billboard advertising less taxes more taxes. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An old photo of a man standing in a door way, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

An old photo of a man standing in a door way, West Virginia. Farm Secu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state employment office trying to get jobs on Camp Blanding. Starke, Florida

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state empl...

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Recommends CCC be made permanent. Washington, D.C., March 15. Robert Fechner, Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, today recommended to the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee that the CCC be made a permanent establishment. The present CCC authorization will expire July 1, 1940. Fechner said that, while he believed the present "distress" of unemployment would end soon, he was satisfied the country would face the problem of providing jobs for needy young men for several years, 3/15/38

Recommends CCC be made permanent. Washington, D.C., March 15. Robert F...

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pea pickers' camp, Canyon County, Idaho. These pickers travel with a labor contractor who secures jobs and provides the campgrounds

Pea pickers' camp, Canyon County, Idaho. These pickers travel with a l...

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Typical of the millions of American families whose wage-earners have found real jobs for real wages for the first time in many years are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas Herbster of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Mr. Herbster says "It feels good to be back at a steady job after CWA, Works Project Administration (WPA) and other odds and ends

Typical of the millions of American families whose wage-earners have f...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. The complicated mechanism of an airplane engine will be no mystery to these District of Columbia students when they finish their WPA vocational training course in airplane mechanics. Upon completion of training, they will be qualified for jobs in some phase of the construction or maintenance of the United Nation's air armada

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. The co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Press room of the Lititz Record-express printing company as the paper comes off the press in the foreground. Smaller presses are for other printing jobs which are becoming more and more necessary in order to keep the paper solvent, because national advertising has practically stopped since the war

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Press room of the Lititz Record-express printing...

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Women in essential services. Women are employed as railroad workers by the Southern Pacific Company in San Francisco. With increasing numbers of men leaving their jobs for the armed forces, women are stepping into new and essential work vital to civilian life

Women in essential services. Women are employed as railroad workers by...

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New York, New York. Industrial training for war work offered to women by New York University under United States government sponsorship. Class in blueprint reading. Many students get jobs even before they finish

New York, New York. Industrial training for war work offered to women ...

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Reverend Jessee [i.e., Jesse] Jackson's march for jobs -- around the White House / [TOH].

Reverend Jessee [i.e., Jesse] Jackson's march for jobs -- around the W...

Photograph shows Jesse Jackson surrounded by marchers carrying signs advocating support for the Hawkins-Humphrey Bill for full employment. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magaz... More

Jobs for girls & women If you want a good job in household employment apply at - or write to Illinois State Employment Service.

Jobs for girls & women If you want a good job in household employment ...

Poster for Illinois State Employment Service promoting jobs for women as domestics offering "good pay, good meals, good surroundings, [and] good working conditions," showing a woman washing dishes. Work Project... More

Ten-year old Sophie "tending the baby," between her jobs of shucking. Maggioni Canning Co. Location: Port Royal, South Carolina.

Ten-year old Sophie "tending the baby," between her jobs of shucking. ...

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[Samuel Longstreth Parrish Art Museum, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, New York. Garden entrance]

[Samuel Longstreth Parrish Art Museum, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, New ...

Site History. Architecture: Grosvenor Atterbury, 1897, 1902, 1912. Landscape: Warren Henry Manning. Today: Museum extant with landscape modifications. Photographed when Frances Benjamin Johnston and Mattie Edwa... More

Outskirts of oil boom town. No living quarters available in town. Hundreds of families pouring in for jobs. Texas

Outskirts of oil boom town. No living quarters available in town. Hund...

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C.I.O. leader endorses recovery program. Washington, D.C., May 2. John L. Lewis, Head of the Committee for Industrial Organization, today told the House Appropriations sub-committee that he was "wholeheartedly in support" of President Roosevelts program. He urged that arrangements be made to provide jobs for 3,500,000 unemployed. In the photograph, left to right: Rep. Edward T. Taylor, Rep. Clifton Woodrum, and John L. Lewis, 5/2/38

C.I.O. leader endorses recovery program. Washington, D.C., May 2. John...

A black and white photo of three men sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of men standing next to each other, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A couple of men standing next to each other, West Virginia. Farm Secur...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can barely make one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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Home of one of two families who travel and work together all through the South, repairing stalls, stoves, tools, houses, and any other odd jobs. Tourist camp near Atlanta, Georgia

Home of one of two families who travel and work together all through t...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Skilled workers with blazing acetylene torches perform many exacting individual welding jobs in the production of cabs for Army trucks. Here a gas welder is working on what is known as the "A" post of an army truck cab

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Skilled workers with blazing acetylene...

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Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state employment office trying to get jobs on Camp Blanding. Starke, Florida

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state empl...

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Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is a victim of "priorities unemployment." It might have been James Smith, rubber worker. It might have been anybody. The "priorities unemployment" is part of a process of changing over, of retooling. And it's a temporary part, in most cases. Defense industries are expanding. In the long run, the defense program will make more jobs than it will break. It has already created 4,000,000 new jobs and there will be 2,500,000 more by April 1942. Production skills are needed for defense, John Jones'skills, James Smith's skills. How does "man meet job?"

Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is a ...

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A black and white photo of a group of sailors. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of sailors. Office of War Informati...

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Jobs - get the facts about occupations - free classes for young men and women 16 to 25 yrs.--National Youth Administration of Illinois / Dusek.

Jobs - get the facts about occupations - free classes for young men an...

Poster shows a young woman holding books and a young man holding machine parts, with factories and city skyline below. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is a victim of "priorities unemployment." It might have been James Smith, rubber worker. It might have been anybody. The "priorities unemployment" is part of a process of changing over, of retooling. And it's a temporary part, in most cases. Defense industries are expanding. In the long run, the defense program will make more jobs than it will break. It has already created 4,000,000 new jobs and there will be 2,500,000 more by April 1942. Production skills are needed for defense, John Jones'skills, James Smith's skills. How does "man meet job?"

Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is a ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Underwear labels, hunting signs, high school and Womens' Christian Temperance Union newspapers are a few of the printing jobs done in the office of the Record-express to keep the paper solvent since national advertising has practically disappeared since the war started

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Underwear labels, hunting signs, high school and...

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Men and women make efficient operating teams on riveting and other jobs at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Men and women make efficient...

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Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Final assembly of the pilot's compartment is being made by these Negro workers in a large Eastern aircraft factory. These youths went directly from a war training course to their jobs in this plant. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Final assembly of the pilot's co...

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Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. To replace men who have been called to armed service, many young girls like 19-year-old Jewel Halliday are taking jobs never before held by women. Her job is shuttling workers between two Midwest war plant. Allis Chalmers Manufacture Company

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. To replace men who have been...

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Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of employment was opened to Negroes recently when six colored girls were given skilled jobs in the Teletype room of the Office of War Information. The young women, trained by OWI at the American Telephone and Telegraph School in Washington, D.C., operate machines which receive and send official war information to all parts of the country. Miss Emma Brown is shown operating an ASR teletype machine in the News Bureau, OWI

Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of emp...

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Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Rivet inspection on a rear monocoque. Two women workers at Vultee's Nashville Division are pictured at their jobs of inspecting rivets in a row of tail cones to be installed in the Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Rivet inspection on a rea...

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Final plans for the march on Washington for jobs and freedom, August 28, 1963

Final plans for the march on Washington for jobs and freedom, August 2...

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Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912) while working in Sanders Spinning Mill, Bessemer City, N.C. August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into the unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old when it happened. His parents are now trying to make him 13 years old. The school census taken at the time of the accident makes him12 years (parents' statement) and school records say the same. His school teacher thinks he is 12. His brother (see photo 3071) is not yet 11 years old. Both of the boys worked in the mill several months before the accident. His father, (R.L. Newsom) tried to compromise with the Company when he found the boy would receive the money and not the parents. The mother tried to blame the boys for getting jobs on their own hook, but she let them work several months. The aunt said "Now he's jes got to where he could be of some help to his ma an' then this happens and he can't never work no more like he oughter." Location: Bessemer City, North Carolina.

Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo Octob...

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Comparison of Ages: Feft [i.e., left] end, Marion Deschere, just passed 13 years. Helps sister in mill "some." Next is Mildred Greenwood, "going on 14." Goes to school. Next is Mamie La Barge, 13 years, but said 14 years. Right end is Rosina Goyette, said 14, probably 12 or 13. Mamie and Rosina have steady jobs. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

Comparison of Ages: Feft [i.e., left] end, Marion Deschere, just passe...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can barely make one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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Camouflage class in New York University, where men and women are preparing for jobs in the Army or in industry, New York, N.Y. They make models from aerial photographs, re-photograph them, then work out a camouflage scheme and make a final photograph

Camouflage class in New York University, where men and women are prepa...

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Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state employment office trying to get jobs on Camp Blanding. Starke, Florida

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state empl...

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These boys handle the luggage and do other jobs around the field of the municipal airport in Washington, D.C.

These boys handle the luggage and do other jobs around the field of th...

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Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. He plays an important part in keeping army tansport fleets rolling. This Negro soldier, who serves as truck driver and mechanic, handles many repair and adjustment jobs at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. He plays an important part in keeping army...

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Production. B-25 bomber. Drilling a bracket part for a B-25 bomber. The Western plant in which this warship of the air is built employs many women at jobs that once were considered exclusively the work of men. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bomber. Drilling a bracket part for a B-25 bomber. Th...

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Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A new Lockheed P-38 pursuit plane takes form on the production line. The wings and the Allison engines are already in place, and the ship now stands on its own wheels. It still requires many detail jobs before completion, but they are done rapidly under a well-ordered plan, and the plane will soon be rolled out for the fitting of propellers

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A new Lockheed P-38 pursuit ...

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Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Sealing blood transfusion bottles with rubber stoppers--one reason why rubber must be saved. These former waitresses, now working at war jobs at Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois, fully realize the importance of the transfusion bottles they are preparing. Betty McGrath (left) lost her fiance in the Battle of Midway. Alice Gottschalk's fiance is in the Army

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Sealing blood transfusion bottl...

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Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Robert E. Lee, formerly of Kentucky, one of three farm labor trainees who got jobs on the farm of James Uriah Dove

Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Robert E. Lee, formerly of Kentucky, ...

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Business planes help companies provide service and jobs General aviation private planes do a world of things you never hear.

Business planes help companies provide service and jobs General aviati...

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Final plans for the march on Washington for jobs and freedom, August 28, 1963

Final plans for the march on Washington for jobs and freedom, August 2...

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Final plans for the march on Washington for jobs and freedom, August 28, 1963

Final plans for the march on Washington for jobs and freedom, August 2...

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