Word: capitaliste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became president of the infant Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Under his astute guidance, it grew into a prodigious union with 350,000 members, the source of Sidney Hillman's power. "Enemy of the Working Class." He became the model of a labor statesman in a capitalist world. He rejected Marxism, accepting instead the theory that the best way to improve labor's lot is to improve management. With funds of the A.C.W. he pulled many a manufacturer out of bankruptcy. He helped them increase the efficiency of their business. He established industry-wide insurance programs...
Pravda's No.1 hatchet man, David Zaslavsky, came out swinging savagely. He tried to pin on Atkinson the practice (Pravda's own practice, incidentally) of reckless and scurrilous fiction-mongering. He portrayed him as a "commercial traveler" for a typical capitalist newspaper enterprise, whose only job was to produce, by fabrication or distortion, the sort of news his bosses wanted to print...
They met in a hall packed with Bridges men. The longshoremen hooted at the red-faced, white-haired capitalist and shipowner. Lapham put his feet apart and shouted back. Bridges' longshoremen ended up by applauding him for his frankness and sportsmanship. That day Roger Lapham walked onto the political stage...
...Comrade Kravchenko," a Party bigwig warned him, "you are going to the country of the most highly developed and rapacious capitalism. The counter-espionage of the FBI is subtle and inescapable. . . . The counter-revolutionary and capitalist press, especially of Hearst and McCormick, will try to destroy your faith. . . . Do you realize the full meaning of the confidence placed...
With Joe was his friend, lean, long-nosed Harry Bridges, there to negotiate on behalf of his own West Coast longshoremen. Smart, articulate Mr. Bridges, who denounced "the capitalist war" until Russia was attacked in 1941, expected no trouble. The operators, he was sure, would give him $1.38 an hour, up from $1.15. So Harry helped Joe, pouncing like a ferret at the operators when he saw an opening...