Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They're seizing the power plant and the telephone building now," boomed the voice over the public-address system. "Henceforth, they will be the property of the state. A boy has been arrested for waving an American flag. He will be dealt with severely." Hartley, Iowa (pop. 1,650) was staging a demonstration of Communism...
...Hansen could muster only about a dozen Hartley men to serve as "guerrillas," plus a few individual Guardsmen from neighboring towns. As the raiders rolled into town in a drizzling rain, the streets were almost deserted. The chief of police was arrested, and "executed" out behind Foley's furniture store. Sheriff Ed Lemkull was playfully roughed up (see cut). Red flags were hung all over the main street and road blocks established. One oldster complained bitterly about standing in line for a permit to buy each glass of beer. "That's the severity of it, Al," explained...
...Hartley's thrifty German citizens just didn't like it. They knew it was only make-believe but it kind of scared them anyway. "They know Communism is bad," explained a town official. "They feel that when you play around with something that is bad, somebody's going to get hurt." Some remembered that when Mosinee, Wis. had a Communist Day, the mayor had suffered a fatal heart attack. Then the program said that houses would be searched. "They won't have no pants if they come to our place," said one housewife...
Died. Representative John Lesinski, 65, veteran Democratic Congressman, champion of labor as chairman of the influential House Education and Labor Committee, undeviating foe of the Taft-Hartley Act; of a heart attack; in Dearborn, Mich. John Lesinski was sent to Congress in 1933 as the first Representative of Michigan's newly created 16th congressional district; a labor-minded area sent him back for the next 17 years...
...action until May 10. Then Senator Taft attacked the most vulnerable of the proposals, No. 12, which would have abolished the office of General Counsel in the National Labor Relations Board. The Hoover Commission never made this specific recommendation and, since the Office was established by the Taft-Hartley Act, both the Republican and Southern Democrat supporters of that bill opposed such an action. The Citizens Committee for the Hoover Reports--a non-partisan group behind the reform measures--did not favor the plan either. And debate on the bill took place while Majority Leader Lucas was desperately trying...