Word: brutalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brutal...
...this union asked for conferences to discuss our grievances. Outstanding among these grievances which cries aloud for immediate adjustment is the deadly, brutal 54-hour work week underground in American coal mines...
...Basement. On Saturday afternoon Washington newsmen got a terse notice that Lewis would speak to them at U.M.W.'s massive headquarters (once the University Club) on 18th Street. The meeting was in the basement auditorium, the walls of which are covered with Lewis cartoons. There, in a brutal "trial," Lewis had booted out of his union a quavering and tragic Phil Murray, until then Lewis' steadfast friend. Now Lewis had no friends around him, only sycophants. He had few friends anywhere, only worshipers or enemies. He had maintained his authority with his goon squads. He was the king...
Last week a brutal storm churned the Atlantic, and on Connemara's beach the fisherfolk, whipped like so many witless ducks by rain and spray, stood staring out to sea. For there in the darkness, where no land had been before, blinked the thousand lights of the city itself. Young folks squealed with the delight of it, but the old ones crossed themselves and breathed a prayer. "Go sbahailadh dia sinn" (God protect us), they muttered, for hadn't the ancient tale said, too, that when the lost city reappeared, Galway itself would slide under the water...
This time it was Lewis' turn to blow up, and he did it handsomely. In a letter that would fire an oyster, he told Krug: "Your attention was again directed . . . to the brutal, 54-hour schedule of men laboring in the bowels of the earth. . . . You cavalierly now propose a 60-day freeze. . . . Your proposal ... is sheer folly and empty platitude. . . . You now, at the last hour of the last day yield to the blandishments and soothing siren voice of the operators and seek to place the United Mine Workers of America between Scylla and Charybdis. This course...