Word: haywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young Upstarts. On hand to help launch the new organization was a platoon of top U.S. labor leaders, including aging William Green and dynamic David Dubinsky of the A.F.L., straight-talking Walter Reuther and diplomatic Allan Haywood of the C.I.O. Outstanding among the Continental union leaders was The Netherlands' pudgy J. H. Oldenbroek, general secretary of the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation, which has 4,000,000 members in some 45 countries. In the fall of 1944, Oldenbroek helped organize the general strike in Nazi-ruled Holland. In an election this week, he was likely to be chosen...
...Year will certainly be Harry S. Truman-and with him Harry Bridges, John Lewis, Phil Murray, Allan Haywood, Dan Tobin, Charley Binaggio. God help...
Bridges' cry for help was heard by C.I.O. President Philip Murray, who has no love for fellow-traveling Harry Bridges. But Murray sent Alan Haywood, national director of C.I.O. organizing, and R. J. Thomas, ex-boss of the autoworkers, to San Francisco. Their job was to intercede as agents of the C.I.O., get the owners to renew their offer. This week the Bridges nose was still in the wringer. Haywood returned to Washington, declaring: "The employers are adamant. They will not deal with Harry Bridges...
...Harm's Way. In Fayetteville, N.C., Elmer Haywood rushed into the city jail, locked himself in a cell, explained that he wanted to avoid being arrested for drunkenness...
...giant was Big Bill Haywood, leader of the Wobblies, who had come to take over-and win-the bitter Lawrence textile strike of 1912. The towheaded boy of 15 was Fred Erwin Beal, a millworker and a striker. Both were to take refuge one day in Russia: Haywood to die there, Beal to live and taste Communism curdling in his mouth...