Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become an official of the British Communist Party. Mr. Strachey denounced this charge as false, demanded a hearing from the State Department. The Department frostily agreed to grant one in London. But the American Civil Liberties Union and other outraged liberals began wiring Franklin Roosevelt and the Department of Labor, which straightway granted Writer Strachey a hearing on a technicality having nothing to do with Communism. As he repaired there at week's end, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear an appeal on the Strecker deportation case. This case may establish that membership in the Communist Party...
...city and go to raising walnuts and pears (at which he is a champion), and practicing leadership at farmers' association meetings. A quiet, pipe-smoking type who (like Downey) really wants the results more than the office, Philip Bancroft talks sharply about the "racketeering" of city labor organizers who "stir up hate" among his Mexican pickers and Japanese packers. He has made overtures to the A.F. of L. but hedged by asking why farm labor must be regimented anyway...
...Prague had gone two British Labor Party henchmen, Messrs. Gillies and David Grenfell, especially to succor Social-Democratic Sudetens. "These people must be saved if we have to rouse the whole world" said Gillies and Grenfell in a joint statement. "The Czechs will now forfeit within a few days the claim to the worldwide sympathy they have deservedly won if they drive back to torture and death at the hands of the Nazis these front-line Soldiers of Democracy...
...Deal. Every unemployed Czechoslovak male aged over 18 was last week ordered to register for Labor Service, a program created by the Syrovy Cabinet to conscript in effect every jobless Czechoslovak to build new railways, highways and other projects necessary to get the dismembered Czechoslovak Republic reorganized and on its feet. As fast as they are mustered out of the Czechoslovak army, great numbers of recruits will be mustered into the Labor Service, and stern punishment was decreed for the new Czechoslovak crime of giving a man a "fake job," thus exempting from Labor Service...
...member to enter objections to any change in Britain's mandate over the Holy Land. Among 8,500 telegraphing protestants urging U.S. pressure on Britain to keep Palestine open to Jewish immigration were Representatives and Senators, five Governors, many Protestant churchmen, New York City's Council, prominent labor leaders, hundreds of Zionists, numerous literary and political figures...