Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drivers and subway and bus employes. Its office workers are invading Wall Street. Here & there C.I.O. has lost minor collective bargaining elections to A. F. of L.. but the defections of A. F. of L. unions into C.I.O.'s ranks still continues. Even Cigar Makers International Union Local No. 144, the local of Samuel Gompers. longtime pillar of the A. F. of L., lately voted to throw in its lot with John Lewis. C.I.O. membership is now nearly as large as A. F. of L.'s (3,000,000 as against 3,600,000). Said sarcastic...
...years for Harry Bridges. Twice he was hurt in dock accidents. As early as 1924 he tried to organize his fellow workers but someone embezzled the union's funds. Though always bucking company unions, he nevertheless managed to find work until 1932, when he had to go on local relief for a short time. During the 1934 strike when he was turning back his union salary, he was on Fed- eral relief for about six weeks...
...himself boosted to power. As early as 1931 he ran head on into a movement to affiliate the San Francisco company unions with A. F. of L.'s International Longshoremen, headed by Manhattan's Joseph P. Ryan. Having stopped this movement, the Bridges group founded their own local, got a charter from Ryan in 1933. At the start of the 1934 strike Mr. Bridges was on the Ryan payroll as an organizer. Not until he was made chairman of the Joint Marine Strike Committee did San Francisco wake up to the fact that there was a Harry Bridges...
...interests but is behind on sinking fund payments. In national credit standing Argentina outranks all Latin America but several Argentine city and provincial issues have defaulted. Like Canada, where the sins of Alberta are not visited on the federal credit, Argentina can now afford to draw the line between local and national credit. The Argentine Republic has been able to launch a refunding program for its dollar bonds, selling 4% issues in the U. S. to pay off the old 6% series. All the rest of Latin America with dollar bonds outstanding is in default to some degree, ranging from...
Best parts of Children of Strangers are its portraits of minor plantation characters, its vivid local color. Its awkwardness is the result of Author Saxon's too often hiding Famie's story while he tells the more dramatic and less sentimental story of Cane River...