Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trade-union fight was a very simple fact: embittered by early .Soviet Army excesses, Russian reparation removals, and more recent deportation of labor, the German working class has become increasingly anti-Russian. The Russians are striving to maintain at all costs Communist-sponsored political leadership of the trade-union movement against the will of the majority of the membership...
...leader of the movement's "liberal" wing, Lipsky is closely associated with Chaim Weizmann, who is a former President of the World Zionist Organization...
White-bearded Menno Simons, who gave the group its name, was a Catholic priest of 44 when he left his church in 1536 to join Grebel's movement. Then the group were called Anabaptists because of their belief in the necessity of adult baptism. Like the Quakers 150-odd years later, they eschewed a paid priesthood and the use of force, did their best to follow literally the precepts of Jesus, patterned their lives on those of the early Christians. In those days, even more than now, such behavior was not only unconventional but dangerous...
...decade ago a gloomy band of British socialists met in Edinburgh. The Ramsay MacDonald government had collapsed. Their movement was wasted by feuds, weighted by inertia; socialism in Britain was moribund. Something had to be done. In desperation they decided to start a tuppenny weekly. To get it going, people like Stafford Cripps, Aneurin Bevan, Ellen Wilkinson, George Russell Strauss and John Strachey chipped in ?10 apiece to buy stock...
...control. They are attempting to cripple the organizations that not only serve to give back to the minimized industrial worker his dignity and human assertiveness, but act as a balance wheel to the growing tendency of American business to concentrate. It is not that this movement toward bigger business is in the nature of a deliberate scheme to control the economy. It is inherent in the nature of an essentially uncontrolled free market economy, where the advantages of mass production call for integration, that bigness, and its corollary power, should evolve...