Word: boyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawson and Dalton Trumbo (who were charged with contempt in the House Un-American Activities Committee hearing) and others, was suspending after a year of life. New Masses Editor Joseph North had already jumped aboard the Daily Worker (as staff writer). Most of his associates (e. g., Richard O. Boyer, New Yorker writer) had other ways of making a living. Executive Editor A. B. Magill and others from both staffs said they would launch a monthly magazine in March. So far, they had figured out a formula (the mixture as before) and a price (35?), but not a title...
...Springfield, Ohio, Autoist Vernon Boyer won an award for being a safe driver, celebrated, was presently arrested for drunken driving...
...union is and how it operates are not well known. The confusion in Congress is proof enough of that. Even the hydra-headed collosi we know as corporations are more familiar, and often more respected. After a brilliant reporting job on a crew and its union activity at sea, Boyer describes the union as a working democracy, as part of the lives of its members, and not as simply a far-away bureaucracy which has lost touch with the people it represents...
...Boyer takes the word "union" out of the newspaper vacuum and puts it in terms of the history, structure and functions and personalities of a labor organization. In vivid concreteness he shows the union organizing, educating, providing social service, operating a hiring hall, running strikes, bargaining collectively, handling grievances and publishing a newspaper. In short, sharp sketches he shows union men and their leaders as human beings...
...careful detail, the book is not complete. Boyer ignores the internal political frictions that have ripped the union from the start. He makes the simple assumption that the N.M.U. is a representative American union. It is not. Not many unions are as militant or as politically conscious. Not many union men manage to combine so much thought and action in their lives. In these respects Boyer sometimes writes naively. But it is a full and important book...