Word: labormen
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This coming week in Denver, Bill Green, by now 64, somewhat plumper, a deal more amiable, will gavel to order his 13th annual A. F. of L. convention. There in the big grey municipal auditorium some 600 accredited delegates and a host of other labormen will assemble in what is still Labor's only national congress. The principal item on the agenda is the man who saved Bill Green from innocuous obscurity, and day after day, in the redundant, turgid oratory so dear to old-time labor leaders, John L. Lewis will be damned and double-damned...
...Washington Mr. Green lives in a suite at the Hotel Hamilton, though his home is still in Coshocton, where he weekends with his wife and family (five daughters, one son). His friends are largely labormen, and he has been deeply hurt by the names he has been called by his old friend, John Lewis...
...Hail, my Labormen!" cried the Realmleader, bursting with honest pride. "Hail, My Leader!" roared 52,000 young throats, then chanted in unison: "One Leader! One Reich! Deutschland uber Attest Heil Hitler...
Precisely what this meant no German perhaps knew, but millions thought they did. Somehow by a process of conscripting German youth for a year into the ranks of Labormen, as France conscripts its youths for service in the army, Adolf Hitler has a notion that he will produce his kind of Socialism, and in addition ideal human material for soldiers. On the front...
...they [Southern strikers] must not think that immediately when a strike is called, a Northern bread-wagon is going to back up to feed them." President Green and the entire executive council were reelected. Boston was chosen for the 1930 convention. Auld Lang Syne was sung as the labormen ended their two-week convention...