Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami, Bill Green desperately tried to make up his mind whether to rush to Washington to make a personal defense. If the miners kick him out, he will be left with an honorary card given him as a one-finger piano virtuoso by the Chicago Musicians Union. That is not enough to hold down the presidency of the A. F. of L., and he will have to join the Progressive Miners of America, which is flat on its back with 36 members sentenced to jail and a $117,000 fine hanging over its head (TIME...
...length deciding that to face John Lewis, the man-eater of the Mine Workers on the stage of the Rialto would only add indignity to misfortune, Bill Green called in reporters. He gave them copies of a 4,000 word defense he was sending to Washington. Denying the treason charge "unqualifiedly and without equivocation," Miner Green spoke over Miner Lewis' head to the rank& file and their pocketbooks. He asked as a union "stockholder" by what authority the U. M. W. board had loaned $2,000,000 to C. I. O., adding: "It is a serious matter to stockholders...
...dragoon march into the Committee for Industrial Organization. . . ." After a little chuckle, he asked: "Fair enough? Fair enough, boys?" The miners clapped, and then uprose to howl approval as they got the point-that with C.I.O.'s voting strength John Lewis stood to win either way. Even Bill Green in Miami chuckled when he heard the proposal-and dismissed it as "impossible...
...command. Moderate Matthew Woll (who all last week was in touch with C.I.O.'s Moderate Dubinsky) has only 8,700 photo-engravers behind him. Moderate George Harrison has the backing of 135,000 railway clerks. But Lewis' implacable enemies number such men as William ("Big Bill") Hutcheson who alone pays A. F. of L. the dues for 300,000 carpenters...
Result of Lopez' melodic pruning was heard last week when Baritone Bill Scott soloed a revised version in Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre. The audience stood up, applauded mildly, but failed to sing...