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Jiddu Krishnamurti, "World Teacher," announced the dissolution of the Order of the Star in the East, theosophical brotherhood founded in India in 1910. He explained: "The Truth needs no disciples. It wants nothing from any man. Only a few will understand, and they need no organization...
...Dannemora is Clinton prison, called "Siberia" by New York's underworld. There are herded the state's ugliest criminals in vicious, degenerate brotherhood. They work for 1¢ per day. While idling in the yard, 1,300 inmates suddenly mutinied, beat two guards, set fire to buildings, stormed the walls. They were unarmed but they fought for five hours. Prison guards, state troopers and citizen volunteers (including famed Baritone Reinald Werrenrath) finally quelled them with machine and riot guns, tear bombs, hand grenades. Three convicts were killed, many injured. Estimated damage...
...think they are worthy to be called your comrades?' And from every town and village in France, from every tomb under a wooden cross in military cemeteries, a wonderful voice will answer me: 'They are not our comrades, they are our brothers; their blood is our blood; our brotherhood and comradeship, the brotherhood and comradeship of France and America, which was sealed under the shadow of death...
Threatened Strike. Locomotive engineers on the Missouri Pacific R. R. and the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis took a strike vote as the result of a three-sided dispute on the representation of grievances involving the carriers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen. Similar strike votes were predicted for the Santa Fé, the Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific on the same issue, with the possibility of a spread of the trouble to eastern and southern systems. The U. S. Board of Mediation girded itself to prevent a big rail strike...
...Blind baggage" is unpaid-for railway travel, usually under freight cars. Members of the brotherhood must pay no railway fare during the first year of their membership, must have no regular abode, must work with their hands (no "white collar" jobs...