Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marching back to work with the rest, Charles Hollinshead, president of the U. A. W. local, declared that the Douglas plan was not far from a yellow-dog contract, under which employes promise not to unionize. Said he: "I have been advised such pledges aren't worth the paper they are printed...
...another are known to have a lenient attitude toward the Church. While none of Stalin's policies is ever criticized by Pravda or Izvestia, their unavoidable coverage of basic news had made it clear last week that the recent Communist Party "purge," in which 60% of all local Communist officials in Russia were either discharged or shifted to new posts (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante), is playing into the hands of the Church. In many districts the Communist boss who has just been shifted into a region where he is a total stranger has been fairly stumped to know...
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...huge Civic Opera House last week, the Men's Teachers Union, Federation of Women High School Teachers. Elementary Teachers Union and Playground Teachers Union dissolved, buried their differences, received from Irvin R. Kuenzli. secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers, a charter as the Chicago Teachers Union. Local No. 1 of the Federation. With 6,500 members, one-half the total teaching staff of Chicago's public schools. the largest and most powerful teachers' union in the U. S. was born...
...Streetsville, Ont., the body of Hayden Pope, 2O-year-old son of the local blacksmith, was dug from its grave the night after burial. In the empty coffin was left a note demanding $100 ransom. Two days later, before horrified Father Pope had a chance to pay, a group of children found Hayden Pope's corpse in a ditch by the roadside...