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Oumansky denied that a dictatorship of the proletariat exists in Russia, stating that "proletariat" implies a dispossessed class, and that such a thing could not obtain in a Socialist country. He added that the factor of coercion was subordinate to the factor of education in the Soviet form of government...
...Mussolini substance, the stuff of a dictator absolutely," the analytical psychologist Jung overlooks the subtle but nevertheless gravitating difference between a leading statesman supported by more than 19,000,000 out of 31,000,000 voters, and the power-craving dictators of Old and New who rule by force, coercion, and intimidation...
...wages which goes into effect next January to begin a sinking fund of some $40,000,000,000 for workers' annuities was a vote getter for Republicans (TIME, Nov. 2), Governor Landon and his cohorts hammered it home, while Franklin Roosevelt & friends cried "Shame," "Falsehood," "Coercion...
...executive action; through the decisive March days, through the tumult round banks and public works and beer, through the birth of the blue eagle. Here is Mr. Lippman praising the emergency legislation in March, 1933, growing warier in the late spring, doubting carnestly by July, when he sees "moral coercion by means of the blue eagle and the boycott" forcing small businesses into line with the N. R. A.'s strict discipline toward an undefined objective. He writes incisively of the logic behind general strikes, while the San Francisco movement of July, 1934, is dying because its leaders refuse...
...Issued a Labor Day proclamation re-asserting his stand that Labor's "right to organize . . . must remain forever free from Governmental or any other form of coercion...