| Labor laws and legislation - 1966 - 788 pages
...in 1965. Sustained general prosperity had finally resulted in improvements for workers who typically are "the last to be hired and the first to be fired". The wide range of government economic and social measures in behalf of Negroes and other disadvantage*!... | |
| Raymond Garfield Fuller - Child labor - 1922 - 188 pages
...insufficient schooling and no special vocational training, and joined the ranks of the marginal laborers, the last to be hired and the first to be fired. In Minneapolis, last fall, special vocational training was given by the authorities to meet the needs... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1933 - 54 pages
...problem. We have from 130,000 to 150,000 colored people in Detroit. That has its social aspect. They are the last to, be hired and the first to be fired. They have no work in Detroit. Then we have a large communistic population. We have a large problem... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Un-American Activities - 1938 - 1538 pages
...concerted efforts on the part of the colored people to develop feeling against the Jews, or there was no feeling on the part of the Jews as a group against...situation. We have here about 250,000, or perhaps 260,000, colored people, and most of them are centered in the community where I live, in the second... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee - 1938 - 632 pages
...which Negroes have been relegated, our colored citizenry have employment only as a last resort — the last to be hired and the first to be fired. In the higher ranks of employment their competition has been practically nil, not because of lack of capacity,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1949 - 620 pages
...77). In those sections of the United States where prejudice against the Indian is most marked, Indians are the last to be hired and the first to be fired. Many Indians whom I know to be keen observers of economic conditions, persons who have achieved distinction... | |
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