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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belong to a party of revolution, completely futile because of its own factional revolutions. Assigned to China by the Red International of Labor Unions in 1927, Comrade Browder returned to New York in 1929, married a blonde Russian. In 1930 his party mentor and patron, General Secretary Foster, was ill and out of commission. So Comrade Browder took over the job as U. S. Communists' strategist-in-chief...
Japan's military spokesmen in Shanghai declared that 250,000 confused, ill-armed, uncommanded-troops were hopelessly trapped in the Suchow area. At Hankow, China's temporary capital, Chinese commanders were more optimistic, said their best troops had withdrawn, claimed recapture of two towns, announced that they were engaged upon a little encircling themselves. The entire length of the 630-mile Tientsin-Pukow Railway is now nominally under Japanese control, although the Japanese will have to operate it against ceaseless Chinese guerilla attacks. For Japan's political administrators in China the victory means that Chinese puppets...
Lake Forest, Ill...
Last year 63 employes of Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. seized that concern's plants at North Chicago, Ill. Against police assaults and court commands to vacate, they held fast until Fansteel's lawyer devised a portable _ wooden tower, enabled officers to douse the sit-downers with nauseating gas. Last September, the National Labor Relations Board declined to concede that subsequent conviction of 37 strikers and two C. I. O. leaders on contempt of court charges in any way affected workers' rights under the Wagner Act. By directing Fansteel to re-employ the strikers, recognize their union, the board...
...Neutrality Council's well-meant but ill-considered denunciation of pro-Japanese propaganda in the Chinese-Japanese Library necessitates a reply, to which I trust you can give equal publicity...