Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Comrade Malkin named nine OGPU agents-including Julia Stewart Poyntz, who left the Party in 1936, mysteriously disappeared after threatening to write a book exposing it; named 24 labor unions, including the Newspaper Guild, as led or dominated by Communists...
...rights of foreign-born citizens. Doubters who lacked confidence in U. S. democratic institutions feared that action taken against Communists might extend to other minority groups. People who doubted the vitality of U. S. trade unions feared that the Dies expose might harm, rather than help, the U. S. labor movement. To these Attorney General Frank Murphy spoke soothingly, promised that civil liberties would be preserved while subversive, disloyal and treasonable activities were stamped...
...open at last was the explosive issue which has underlain most of the fighting between Labor and the motormakers since C. I. O. moved into the industry two years ago. The issue: whether autoworkers or their bosses shall decide how fast production lines move, i.e., how many cars and parts are produced in a given time. Speedy, timed, mass production is what makes motor cars cheap and plentiful in the U. S. So the battle in Detroit was of as much interest to automobile buyers as to the motormakers, their 380,000 workers, and the furnishers of steel, rubber, plate...
...Gompers could speak from the grave, he undoubtedly would tell his heirs in U. S. Labor to get shut of the Wagner Act, of Federal Wage and Hour regulation, of all dependence upon courts, politics and politicians. Until he died in 1924, the founding father of the American Federation of Labor preached that unions should trust first & last in their own economic might, never in transitory laws and governments...
Donlom called on the combined forces of labor, students, and intelligentsia to unite in opposition to the "ideological background for war laid by business and the administration...