Word: mass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pecan pickers took their troubles to Juan Lopez, a naturalized Mexican priest, with strong C. I. O. sympathies. With Father Lopez" approval the International Pecan Shellers Union (a San Antonio local of C. I. O. Cannery Workers) called a mass meeting to plan a strike. Into the meeting to steal the show completely marched Emma Tenayuca. La Pasionaria's Communism was too much for Father Lopez, and he retired from active direction. Not more than 1,000 of 11,000 workers, struck. Soon pickets were parading with signs reading, "El Padre Lopez es un mat Católico...
From her office at the local Workers Alliance, Emma Tenayuca continued to pull strings with the assistance of her "gang,'' some 300 devoted followers whom she deploys with a masterly hand in picket line or mass meeting. But by week's end the strike had gone into the legal trenches with hearings, investigations, applications for injunctions and loud demands to the Governor for Texas Rangers to enforce civil liberties in San Antonio...
Germanic unity: "Two of the states bordering Germany alone include a mass of 10,000,000 Germans! [Austria & Czechoslovakia-see map]. . . . About one thing there should be no doubt. Separation from the state sovereignty of the Reich cannot lead to the loss of racial or political rights' . . . Just as England defends her interests the world over, the present day Germany will be able to defend her much more limited interests." "Colonies Demanded." But the big smash of the Chancellor's speech was Hitler's ominous roar that Germany has "no differences with England-except colonies...
Cried she: "I've got a lot of new axes -about a dozen of them-and I'm not going to quit until every machine is out of the city." In Alton's Methodist Church, lay men and churchmen held a mass meeting to raise funds for her defense. Oddly, none mentioned the real reason...
...Lowell, Mass., police halted Frank W. Shuflat, found him loaded down with $100 worth of merchandise, leading on a leash a docile police dog, watchdog of a restaurant he had just robbed...