Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frank with you, I was hit because I expressed my opinion about local conditions, in a local paper. I expressed my opinions then and I'll express them again! The blood of my people has been shed in three American wars that America might be a free country and I sure as hell will carry on that tradition. Three people came to me and told me not to start a newspaper. I wondered why! Now, I know why! "It is dangerous for your reputation," one said. I say to hell with a reputation (what is a reputation?) when...
While Labor's top leaders continued to jockey for advantage and hold off peace between C. I. O. and A. F. of L., a small voice piped up from the ranks last week. At Sacramento, Calif., 27 A. F. of L. and six C. I. O. local unions got together in a United Labor Council. Purposes: to insure respect for each other's picket lines regardless of affiliation; to ask their national officers to heed Franklin Roosevelt's pleas for Labor peace...
...weary rank-&-filers similarly united at Corpus Christi, Texas last month and at Stockton, Calif, two weeks ago. When the movement spread to Sacramento, President Bill Hutcheson of the A. F. of L. carpenters threatened to revoke the local carpenters' charter if they joined the new council. C. I. O. West Coast Director Harry Bridges applauded the trend, declared action for peace must come from the bottom...
Sending an official delegation of 20 members, the local chapter of the American Student Union will take an active part in the Fourth National Convention next week in New York City...
...delegation will include Robert E. Lane '39, president of the American Student Union as well as the local branch, and John S. Stillman '40, president-elect of the Harvard Student Union. All men who wish to go along as observers are welcome, stillman, announced last night, and should get in touch with Paul Olum '40, treasurer and vice-president-elect, who is in charge of the University delegation...