Word: files
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor's sweep toward power continued to surge and boil across the land last week. Keeping in the van. rank & file motor workers set the week's keynote, showing by a fresh wave of sit-downs that they were getting out of their leaders' hands (see p. 20). In Wilmington, Del., a short-lived general strike called in support of striking truck drivers sent flying squads of unionists roving the city's streets, tossing bricks through windows of trolleys, busses, stores. In Albert Lea, Minn., retaliating for the smashing of picket lines and a tear...
...worst outbreak of unauthorized sit-downs and walkouts to date shut nine G. M. plants in Flint and Pontiac, including the big Flint plant which makes all Chevrolet motors. A few of the strikes were in protest against discharge of union employes, but most were ostensibly called because rank & file hotheads felt they were not getting enough representation on shop committees, that their grievances were not being settled quickly enough. Thoroughly out of patience, G. M.'s Vice President Knudsen sent U. A. W.'s President Homer Martin a stern letter reminding him of the union...
...think that if we are members of the Central Committee of People's Commissars we possess all the knowledge necessary to give correct leadership. Rank in itself gives neither knowledge nor experience. We must listen attentively to the voice of the masses and of the rank and file of the party, to the voice of the so-called little people...
...test, triumphed overwhelmingly as the Government bill passed without even the formality of a division (nose-counting). This formality Major Attlee could have forced if Labor were sincere in wanting to get on record who is for and who is against Rearmament. Bleated Laborite Ammon of the rank & file: "Those who should hold the confidence of the country are using that confidence to bring on preparations for war-a war which was the very thing they pledged themselves against...
...FASCIST : HIS STATE AND HIs MIND -E. B. Ashton-Morrow ($2.50). A sensible attempt to unscramble the political file marked "Fascist," in which liberal Author Ashton discovers a huge accumulation of names that do not belong there...