Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many Americans, Jackie thought, are ready to cry "Communist" every time they hear a complaint about the Negro's status in the U.S. "The white public," he said, "should start toward real understanding by appreciating that every single Negro who is worth his salt is going to resent any kind of slurs and discrimination because of his race and he's going to use every bit of intelligence to stop it ... Negroes were stirred up long before there was a Communist Party, and they'll stay stirred up long after the party has disappeared-unless Jim Crow...
...Assistance Program (M.A.P.) faced a far harder fight and a closer vote than the North Atlantic Treaty (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Opponents of the arms plan say that it will cost too much, and that it might provoke Soviet Russia to attack. The plan's advocates reply that a Communist victory in Europe would be far more expensive for the U.S., and that Soviet Russia is provoked to aggressive acts by the weakness, not by the strength, of the non-Communist world...
Last week in Marseille, the Communist-dominated World-Federation of Trade Unions created an International Union of Seamen and Dockers, with Harry Bridges as its president. Bridges could not accept the new post in person. He is under indictment for perjury in San Francisco (TIME June 6), and the judge thought it unwise to let him leave the country...
When the W.F.T.U. was founded at Paris in 1945, the C.I.O., with which Bridges' militant International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union is still affiliated, was a member. The A.F.L. was not. Last January the C.I.O., fed up with fighting the Communist line in the W.F.T.U., quit it cold. Representatives of 36 nations met last month in Geneva to set up an anti-Communist international labor organization. The C.I.O. attended-and so did the A.F.L. The new organization will speak for some 42 million anti-Communist trade union members. It will not speak for Harry Bridges...
...four-week-old London dock strike was over. This week 15,500 dock workers went back to work and 12,000 troops who had been taking their places returned to their regular duties. Officials of the Communist-tinged Canadian Seamen's Union did what the Labor government was unable to do. They called off their strike as far as British ports were concerned. So the dockers could, without being called "blacklegs," unload the two Canadian ships that had started the trouble...