Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irvington, N. J., Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Worcester, Mass, pamphleteers, denied that right, had appealed...
...changed its position on the great labor questions-the industrial organization of mass-production industries, democracy in unions-that first brought about the formation...
...unionism for all A. F. of L. unions. Nor did they set up C. I. O. merely because they disliked individual A. F. of L. leaders, or disapproved of the way some unions were run. Basic complaint was that while A. F. of L. talked of organizing the big, mass-production industries, steel, rubber, autos, etc., it accomplished nothing. Lesser complaints were that unions were arbitrarily run by executives, that new members pouring in were frequently denied votes (mostly because new members threatened the complicated structure of union benefits that old members had accumulated). First peace negotiations broke down because...
...example to the rest of Mexico's extremely virile but somewhat casual Army, authorities recently persuaded 730 soldiers to solemnize their union with faithful companions who have been neither maids, wives nor widows. With the slogan "Legalize and Moralize!" a mass marriage was arranged in Mexico City at the National Stadium, packjammed with approving spectators. Several soldiers' brides carried babes in arms, but outstanding newlyweds were a trim, ramrod-backed officer and his stern, hollow-cheeked wife, who were proudly married in the presence of their brood of five...
This week in Manhattan the committee issued a dismally illustrated "Preliminary Report." It was promptly denounced by Secretary Evan Just of the Tri-State Zinc & Lead Ore Producers Association as "damned blackmail." The report contains no harrowing Gauley Bridge tales of mass burials and walking skeletons. It offers only Government statistics, a short medical treatise on silicosis, eyewitness accounts of Tri-State life. What distinguishes the committee's report from most of the 50-odd other silicosis reports which have come out in the last 20 years is the fact that it treats silicosis not as a disease...