Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pacific. After the strike Harry Bridges was rewarded with official leadership of the Pacific Coast longshoremen, and one of his first ideas was to create a united maritime front. For this purpose he sponsored the Maritime Federation of the Pacific with the longshoremen and seamen as the key unions. The motto: "An injury to one is an injury to all." For the Federation's first president he hit on Harry Lundeberg, who was even more militant than he. This was such a boost for Lundeberg that he was soon given leadership of the Sailors' Union. Meantime...
President Cianetti was born and reared a soil-grubbing peasant, while Dr. Ley worked originally as a chemist. Cianetti is ebullient, fiery, humorous-Ley full of German mysticism and plodding pugnacity. In a recent two-hour address to proletarians at Hamburg, Labor's Ley key- noted : "Those German employers who dare to rate machines higher than men are going to be given plenty of opportunity to arrive at a contrary opinion in concentration camps!" In Italy's present production spurt toward rearmament, Labor's Cianetti dashes incessantly about the kingdom, addressing workers' meetings, hearing grievances...
...free to leave. Pennsylvania R.R. was forbidden to deliver inbound shipments. After an eleven-hour siege Bethlehem officially surrendered, under "duress" and still vigorously protesting the illegality of the Governor's action. The company was allowed to keep 900 men for maintenance and minimum operations in a few key divisions...
...note. To Premier Blum the voice of goatee-waggling Léon Jouhaux, epicure, onetime longshoreman, is even more a master's voice than is John L. Lewis' to Franklin Roosevelt. Léon Jouhaux bosses not half but all of France's organized labor front, key force in the Popular Front whose votes keep Premier Blum in power. Roared Léon Jouhaux at Geneva: "You cannot on one hand prepare for war and on the other develop social justice...
...Key resolution of the New Yorkers and most significant of the whole convention was the one to amend the Guild constitution so as to throw the organization open to workers in advertising, circulation, business and other unorganized departments, and to apply for affiliation in the C. I. O. Rolypoly Reporter Robert Buck of the Washington News has constituted himself the leader of the Guild's loyal opposition ever since the union was founded. His faction, conservative and contrary individuals from the Southwest and Midwest who resent the "New York domination," approved joining C. I. O. but opposed broadening...