Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unionism, President William L. Hutcheson of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, who hates Leader Lewis not only for his ideas but for the fisticuff Lewis dealt him at the last A. F. of L. convention (TIME, Oct. 28), was chairman of the Republican Labor committee in the 1932 campaign, expects to do the same job this year...
...very serious, if not fatal mistake was made when [ the Committee for Industrial Organization] flouted the decision of the last convention of the A. F. of L. . . . and prevented the Executive Council from carrying out the convention's instructions 'to inaugurate, manage, promote and conduct an organizing campaign among the iron and steel workers at the earliest possible date. . . .' The sum total achieved by the Committee for Industrial Organization thus far is nothing whatever except division, discord and confusion within the ranks of organized labor.'' Back slugged the strong and scornful leader of the Committee...
Hence it was in no way surprising that A. F. of L. craft union leaders in Washington last week should be virtually as angry and alarmed as were U. S. steelmasters at John Lewis' current campaign to organize U. S. steel workers in one big industrial union. For it was no less a threat to the established order and profits of one group than of the other...
...Landon himself once made significant news when for the first time in the 1936 campaign he played the politician's trick of picking up a rival's catch phrase, giving it an ironic twist. Planning to stop at a Greeley, Colo. rodeo on his way back to Topeka for a special session of Kansas' Legislature this week, the Republican nominee was told that he would be driven around Greeley in a landau once owned by Mrs. Horace ("Baby Doe") Tabor. "A landau," smiled he, "just a horse & buggy for a horse & buggy candidate...
...East and South are lined up solidly behind us and a great portion of the Middle West as well." So spoke last week neither Republicans nor Democrats but the campaign managers of School Superintendent William Henry Holmes of Mount Vernon, N. Y., candidate for the presidency of potent National Education Association. To choose a new president, to spend five days in exciting talk about their profession, 15,000 U. S. teachers and school officials journeyed to Portland, Ore., for NEA's 74th annual convention...