Word: haywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, Phil Murray's hatchetman Allan Haywood delivered the bad news to Red-eyed Harry Bridges: he was fired as a C.I.O. regional director for refusing to go along with Murray's policy of opposing Henry Wallace's third party. Australia-born Harry Bridges' grip on about 75,000 longshoremen was not affected. But he was expecting more bad news -another attempt to deport...
...meet "progressive" standards ADA will from a united-front throughout the country for the AFL's League for Political Education and the CIO's Political Action Committee. The plans are concrete. Hard-boiled veterans of labor's wars such as organization directors Frank Fenton of the AFL and Allan Haywood of the CIO, both conspicuous at the proceedings and solidly attached to ADA for 1948, are not the sort who convention go for the spectacle...
When the I.W.W. opposed World War I, the Wobblies were hunted as spies and lynched as saboteurs. Big Bill Haywood, jailed for sedition, jumped bail and fled to die in Russia. The Wobblies' onetime membership of 100,000 gradually dwindled away...
Back in the days when a picket line bordered upon open revolution, the turbulent Wobblies and their hulking, emotional prophet, Big Bill Haywood, scattered dreams of industrial uprising through dark East Coast mills and the rough timberlands of the West. Police cracked their heads and vigilantes attacked their halls as citadels of anarchy...
...longer his own on-the-spot boss. Some of LeMay's devoted associates in the Twentieth did not take kindly to the change, just as they instinctively resented him when he replaced the first commander of the B-29s in the Marianas-friendly, brown-eyed Brigadier General Haywood S. ("Possum...