Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago railway organizer named William Zebulon Foster tried his hand at organizing Steel. This attempt degenerated because American Federation of Labor unions were more anxious to protect their individual interests than to bring steelworkers into the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. As in 1919, the great 1936 fight to unionize 500,000 steelworkers will not be directed by a member of the steel craft but by a heterogeneous group, mostly outsiders...
...This [steel drive] is to be a campaign that has no terminal facilities, that has no deadline. It is a fight that is going to go on until the workers in the steel industry have the right to organize in unions of their own choice and decide conditions of their own working life in the same manner as workers in other industries...
...Sting No. 4. After the Emperor had given Geneva to understand for several days that he would not plead Ethiopia's cause himself before the Assembly, abruptly at the last moment the King of Kings announced that he was entering the fray in person, will "fight to the last gasp of breath...
...Fight! Fight! Fight for spinsters' pensions...
...would whip the German fisticuffer in Manhattan. As the dirigible Hindenburg neared Frankfurt with Schmeling aboard, Dr. Goebbels rushed the pugilist's mother and his wife, German Cinemactress Anny Ondra, to meet him in a Government plane. Berlin tax experts figured that of Schmeling's $150,000 fight profits, the U. S. will get $40,000 and Germany $50,000 unless special tax remission is ordered by Adolf Hitler...