Word: acts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Green winced at one of the most painful manifestations of undeclared peace: the preponderance of union newspapers in and out of A. F. of L. which denounce his proposed Wagner Act amendments. In broadsides to all State and city federations of A. F. of L. unions, he complained that C. I. O.'s American Newspaper Guild was seducing the impoverished Labor press with fair words, paid space, cash contributions. Said he: ". . . Many of these so-called A. F. of L. publications have . . . ridiculed the position of the . . . Federation ... on important legislative matters. ... A situation of this kind...
...next thing you know, the C. I. O. press and the Communist press are . . . trying to make the public and Congress believe the A. F. of L. rank and file is not loyal to its leaders and is not supporting the A. F. of L. amendments to the Wagner Act...
Their last act before the ship sailed was to receive for the second time the 50-odd correspondents who had traveled with them on their long ordeal. The Royal couple passed down the line, exchanging a few words with each man and woman. Their remarks reflected their own condition: "You must be tired. . . . You must be simply dead. . . . You must be glad you are going home. ..." A woman reporter told the Queen that she had never seen anyone with the power to give such happiness. The Queen blushed, murmured her thanks. "It is very kind of you to say that...
...miles of territory in the rear of the Japanese Army they have organized "self-defense" governments. Some 75,000,000 people, almost as many as lived in pre-Munich Germany, help the Cooperative Committees and the Mobilization Committee of these governments. Boys between 14 and 16 years of age act as a special messenger service; farmers cooperate by cutting ditches and felling trees across roads to impede Japanese troop movements...
Editor Barclay's bitter conclusion: to small businesses the Wagner Act "denies the right of a free trial and imposes only one alternative choice: economic suicide...