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...group of unemployed living in shanties they have made of sewer pipes. A one-time prosperous publicity agent, a ruined broker, a "wobbly," a Texas farmer pool their potential resources and, after a meeting, get enough supplies on credit to start work. A one time Socialist and Alaska miner named Sig Soren persuades old Theophilus Fleming, utilities tycoon, that the movement holds no threat to business. The co-operatives grow, getting recruits from a sharecrop per's family, a girl who escapes from white slavers, an anti-Fascist Italian barber, religious fanatics, diet faddists, a young doctor, disruptive Communists...
...ironware, pottery, costumes, etc., for distribution to schools and colleges. As last year, a sizeable section was set apart for the work of children in state-supported institutions. Some of their output, particularly the sculpture, was better than that of the adults. Outstanding were a plaster head of a miner by 15-year-old Mike Mosco; a stone buffalo by 11-year-old Antony de Paolo, who was run over and killed by an automobile few weeks ago, and a watercolor of a vixenish young lady in a little veil, painted by 10-year-old Donald Liguore of the Boys...
Major concern of last year's convention in Cleveland was William Green's charge that A, F. of T. was riddled with Communism. Major concern of last week's 500 delegates was William Green's charge that Miner John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization is trying to split...
...Yale Professor Jerome Davis: "The A. F. of L. should never have suspended [Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization] without putting the question to the whole membership. . . ." (TIME, Aug. 17). Promptly passed by a unanimous vote was a resolution condemning the A. F. of L.'s treatment of Miner Lewis, endorsing the principle of industrial unionism. At that point the delegates abruptly reefed their sails, declined to head into C. I. 0. Likeliest explanation was that A. F. of T., whose members pay a maximum 40? a month dues, cannot afford lobbyists in every State capital, must depend...
Meanwhile the siege of Oviedo, which bloodthirsty Asturian coal miners had been trying to take ever since the Revolution began, proceeded last week with famed Colonel Miguel Aranda desperately at bay. It was he who under Government orders two years ago suppressed the Asturian miners' own attempt at a Marxian uprising, and they were out to get Colonel Aranda even though in so doing they imperiled the lives of their own families in the city he was defending. With the siege at its hottest, the Colonel abandoned the usual tactic of trying to defend a central stronghold, distributed...