Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole subtle strike purpose. What union label would he prefer? The C. I. 0. label, of course. But not all G. M. workers are C. I. 0. unionists by any means. And the split of United Automobile Workers into a C. I. 0. and an A. F. of L. faction occurred after G. M.'s present contract with U. A. W. was negotiated. Walter Reuther, declared the company, was making demands and calling strikes at this critical time simply to clinch the superiority of C. I. 0. over A. F. of L. in the G. M. sector...
...great-great-great-grandson. Colonel Wedgwood, "last of the great individualists," is a igth-Century fighting liberal, so independent that he would not even join the Independent Labor Party. Highlights of his long Parliamentary career include opposition to entrance into the World War and the rallying of a Parliamentary faction to support King Edward VIII in the Wallis Warfield Simpson crisis (". . . an insult to the United States"). Colonel Wedgwood's big heart, like that of his ancestor who backed the American Rebels of 1776, burns for all oppressed peoples, including Spaniards, Czechs and Jews, but he abhors spinelessness...
...these maneuvers was silent, saturnine Secretary-Treasurer Addes. Young Mr. Addes was put up for the presidency by Frankensteen, Mortimer & Co., who with the backing of U. A. W.'s small but potent Communist faction hoped to capitalize on his great popularity. After some tough talking by Murray & Hillman, Mr. Addes agreed to step aside if they would publicly indicate another choice. Loath to convict themselves of "dictatorship," Murray & Hillman at last pointed to amiable, amenable Provisional President Thomas, whom they had upped from a vice-presidency after Homer Martin seceded. Result: fewer dogs were left to fight over...
Meanwhile in Detroit, Homer Martin, head of U. A. W.'s seceding minority, was unable to meet his headquarters payroll until five days after it was due, had to dismiss 35 organizers. Strained by advance disclosure that he was planning to take his faction into A. F. of L., Mr. Martin's nerves snapped when Detroit Timesman Harry Taylor commented caustically upon the sad state of Mr. Martin's affairs. Homer Martin flared up, fisticuffed for five minutes...
That not much mercy will be shown to Communists (who compared to the Anarchists were a moderate faction of Loyalist Spain) was indicated by New York Times Correspondent George Axelsson in a dispatch filed just after leaving Valencia shortly before that city fell. Wirelessed Newsman Axelsson...