Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Picketing of Automats, which had become almost as much of an institution in Manhattan as the Automat itself, came to a sudden end last week after five uproarious months. The strike was called last August by two unions, Bakery Workers and Cafeteria Employes, after they lost a collective bargaining election. Less than 500 of the 5,600 employes of the Horn & Hardart nickel-in-the-slot restaurant chain walked out, but what they lacked in numbers was more than made up in zeal. For the dispute soon boiled down to old-fashioned police-baiting. Immediate issue was the right...
...Count Stürgkh, but was amnestied. Socialist workers throughout the world have long known that Dr. Adler always carries an extra forged passport in the name of "Al Frey" in addition to his own, but Rotterdam police have not. They know Dr. Adler well and one day last August, when he handed them his forged passport by mistake, they arrested him. In vain Dr. Adler continued to protest right up to last week that "it is for use only in Germany and Italy." An unsympathetic Dutch court last week sentenced him to four months in jail...
Front-paged by the august New York Times one day last week was a story about an editorial in Justice, house organ of David Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers Union. The Garment Workers have had plenty of good publicity this winter from their Labor Stage musical revue Pins and Needles but the Justice editorial was in dead earnest. Profoundly regretting the breakdown of the A. F. of L.C. I. O. peace negotiations, the editorial declared...
...sudden evacuation of the capital despite the fact that the Japanese troops are still 110 miles east of the city gates, is looting by Chinese troops-not fear of bombardment from Japanese warships. . . . Inside the Chinese lines the utmost confusion prevails. . . . Chinese troops have not been paid since August. . . . There is severe lack of food for front-line troops. . . . Demoralization had resulted from lack of attention for the Chinese wounded. . . . Then, too, might be added the strong resentment of the Chinese front-line troops at the fact that while they are under constant aerial bombings from Japanese bombers no Chinese...
...Saturday Evening Post was not founded by Benjamin Franklin, as blazoned from the Post's headband. Franklin died in 1790. The Post began publication, as a compendium of news and literary contributions, August 4, 1821, in a little printing shop on Philadelphia's Market Street which happened to have inherited Franklin's old hand press, a few fonts of his type and the goodwill of his defunct Pennsylvania Gazette...