Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East from eastern Arkansas, set out in 1934 to do something for Southern sharecroppers. What they did, with the help of No. 1 Socialist Norman Thomas, was to organize the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Having bearded many a planter and even bettered matters a little for its poverty-stricken membership, S. T. F. U. in 1937 tried to affiliate with C. I. O. as an autonomous union. Because the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing & Allied Workers of America was already in the farm field, S. T. F. U. was required to hook up with that union as a supposedly autonomous division...
Speaking on "The Function of Art in a Changing Social Order" before a general membership meeting of the Student Union in the Fogg lecture hall, Feild defined art as skill, based on four essentials: the incentive, or final cause; the image, or formal cause; the materials, or material cause; and the tools, or efficient cause...
...There has been a deliberate and diabolical scheming . . . for making our union subservient to . . . a partnership between the dictatorship of John L. Lewis and the Communist dictatorship of the proletariat. We must win the rank and file of honest membership...
Whatever effect this had on the honest membership, it achieved a Labor paradox. A so-called C. I. O. audience booed & hissed every mention of the name of John Lewis...
...Total membership: 603 men, twelve women...