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...Clothing Workers, assistant chairman of Hillman's P.A.C. Hillman's trouble shooter and Hillman's old and loyal friend. Other members were the secretary-treasurers of four of C.I.O.'s biggest unions: the steel Workers' David J. McDonald and the textile workers' William Pollock, who stand to the right of the political center; the auto workers' George Addes, whom U.A.W.'s Communist groups have long supported; the Communist-influenced electrical workers union's Julius Emspak, who has followed the Communist Party line...
Henry Cabell McClelland, Frank Bearss Muhlfeld, John Watson Pollock, Theodore Louis Squier, Jr., Edward Morrill Tuckerman, George Henry Warren...
...were they particularly dismayed at being out of work. They had had a wonderful winter and they were well off-temporarily, at least. In West Frankfort, Ill., near the world's largest mine, they stood three deep around the Egypt Café bar; miners' wives paraded into Pollock's Electrical Appliance Co. to order washers and refrigerators. The West Frankfort bank was fairly bursting with miners' deposits. Telephone installations were at an all-time peak and the "42" Cab Co. was doing a record business. Illinois miners had enough money, a United Mine Workers official figured...
...accepted for Resistance work. At first he was just barked at by his superiors or kept cooling his heels in the dirty waiting room filled with dated copies of the Daily Express and France Libre. But if he was not on time, he was barked at louder: "Handsome Mrs. Pollock would glower at me from behind her flower-and-chocolate-laden desk, and her pneumatic Jane, the American secretary in uniform, would pretend to be engrossed in her typing, so that she could spare no sympathy." A major warned him: "Please be careful, my friend. You must not give...
Shanghai's tramway system covers 43 miles, employs 3,000 workers, hauls 450,000 passengers daily, and is managed by salty Scotsman Alexander Pollock for the British-owned Shanghai Electric Construction Co., Ltd. When Scotsman Pollock emerged last August from Japanese internment to take over his old enterprise, he found chaos. Among other things, the blithering enemy had paid all workers, skilled and unskilled, veteran and green, alike. The first job was to re-establish wage scales...