Word: antilabor
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Just over the ridge was the Tuscan host. Provoked by this latest demonstration of organized labor's willfulness, the leaders of the 80th Congress thumbed over pages of proposed antilabor legislation. Above the coal pits, above all of organized labor, the pendulum of public opinion swung. Lewis himself had given it a big push towards intolerance. A general strike in Oakland, Calif, was hastily called off by A.F.L. labor leaders who saw the way the pendulum was swinging...
Montana's Zales Ecton, prosperous dirt farmer, became the state's first G.O.P. Senator in 33 years when Wheeler Democrats preferred him to left-wing Leif Erickson. An unimpressive campaigner and hesitant speaker, as a seven-term state legislator he was vigorously antilabor...
...building up Conchie Herbert Morrison, that same cocksure cockney was busy threatening the press of this country with an "inquiry." The press of this country is not afraid of any such inquiry, if conducted impartially, but under the Morrison banner it can only mean one thing-censorship of anything antiLabor...
...soldier, lawyer and wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services (TIME, Aug. 16). Then, suddenly, Bill Donovan got a hard slap from the state A.F.L., which dragged up an old case from the time when Donovan was U.S. District Attorney and used it to denounce Donovan as antilabor. What Donovan had done-in 1922-was to prosecute Buffalo labor leaders who had dynamited a passenger train. At the A.F.L.'s blast out of history he protested loud & long, but some damage had been done to his candidacy...
...when the weary delegates packed up their bags and headed for home they had constructed a determined, deadly serious, left-of-center plan of action. It called for: international control of atomic energy, Big Three unity, a guaranteed annual wage, expansion of TVA-style river projects, solid opposition to antilabor, Jim Crow* and anti-Nisei legislation. True to the motto, it vetoed the idea of a veterans' bonus...