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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rich Po Valley and on the sunlit Roman plains, a strike call went out last week to 400,000 braccianti (landless farmhands). They wanted a nationwide contract, with better pay and job security, between their unions and the landowners. Months of collective bargaining had ended in deadlock-and Italy's most disturbing disorders since the Red riots of early...
Wide-spread objections have been raised to the oath legislation, which would apply to labor union members, candidates for office, elected state officials, civil service employees, and employees on public contract jobs...
...charged that his political affiliation was responsible for the failure of the administration to renew his contract. This was denied by John W. Long, Lycoming's president. Over 100 students out of a student body of 900 signed a petition asking for Athearn's reinstatement, but the authorities took no action...
...telegram to the CRIMSON, Harmos Caldwell, Chancellor of the university, stated that the college dean had recommended that Barfoot's contract "not be renewed on the ground that he had only a bachelor's degree and was making no serious effort to go forward with his graduate work and secure higher degrees...
...Affiliation with the Progressive Party was not responsible for the failure to renew the contract," Caldwell said. On the subject of Georgia's policy on the political activities of its professors, he quoted a university statute which states: "Members of the faculty should refrain from involving the university in partisan politics, futile controversies, and harmful publicity...