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...subversive organizations--from the Abolish Peonage Committee to Zajednicar (Brotherhood, Croatian)--are almost all cited by the California (Tenney) Committee on Un-American Activities. There are such diverse groups as the Consumers Union, the People's Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, the Sweethearts of Servicemen, the Nature Friends of America, and the National Lawyers' Guild...
...cause: the happy morticians' own employees. First they joined a union (for reasons best known to themselves, a branch of the A.F.L. International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers). Then-Pierce Brothers complained-they mischievously switched the routing tag on a casket and sent a loved one to the wrong service. And on top of that, 19 of them (simply because they had been fired) began picketing Pierce funerals in Ascot ties and morning coats-apparel which contrasted nicely with their strikers' signs...
...Author Sperber's little band of dedicated, wrong-headed men are broken on the Comintern's rack, discover too late that they have been pawns in a game that has nothing in common with dewy-eyed dreams of Marxist brotherhood...
...argued the labor bosses. They had an accumulation of other resentments: the President's recent attack on the railway brotherhood chieftains; the fact that Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin, labor's great & good friend, had been denied a position of more influence. They were bitter over the fact that John L. Lewis had pried loose a 20% wage boost for his miners. But above all, the bosses of Big Labor resented being left out of the top policy-making jobs in the defense program, while bosses from Big Business run the show. Big Labor knows very well that...
...Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen also drew a stinging and costly rebuke this week. In Washington, Federal Judge Edward A. Tamm slapped a $75,000 fine on the brotherhood after it pleaded guilty to contempt of court for pulling its paralyzing "sick" strike (TIME, Feb. 19) in defiance of a federal injunction. Said Judge Tamm: "If unions are to continue to grow and prosper they must accept their responsibilities as well as their rights...