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Last week the delegates of the All-India Congress Committee met for the annual elections. Unexpectedly they turned thumbs down on Leader Gandhi's man, re-elected Leftist Bose, by a vote of 1,575-to-1,376. Saint Gandhi took his defeat hard. He charged fraud, claimed the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Coming Struggle | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

It also tightens seniority rules, giving less advantage to foremen, more to U. A. W. members. It allows dues collections on company property but not on company time.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Again, Sit Downs | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

He reported a membership of 4,037,877 (before deducting I. L. G. W.'s 250.000); three-year receipts of $3.540.385.62; expenditure of $3,510,954.93; balance on hand. $29,430.69. Most significant claim: that C. I. O. has balanced its budget with incomes from dues, no longer depends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Across the Rubicon | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Nearing retirement age, Gwilliams has lately been pocketing the five pence ha'penny a week he used to pay as dues to the National Union of Railwaymen. Because he failed to pay up, the union dropped him. Because he was no longer a union man, to porters, pitchers, ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Storm Over Gwilliams | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Top Alliance men at the convention were wan, tireless President David Lasser. 36, and bespectacled, soft-spoken Secretary-Treasurer Herbert Benjamin. 37. Two-and-a-half years ago Socialist Lasser's original Alliance and Herbert Benjamin's Communist Unemployment Councils submerged their differences, merged with lesser organizations into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bread & Progress | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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