Word: prolabor
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...focus the sad record of WSB to date. It is composed of 18 men-six representing labor, six industry, and six "the public." The six "public" members, who hold the balance of power, are mostly professional arbiters and theoretically impartial. In practice, their major decisions have been almost all prolabor. Examples...
...this concentrated assault? And why should it come just now?" asked Fraser. His answer: it was partly retaliation for last year's prolonged strike at Asbestos, Que., in which certain clerics defied the Duplessis government and supported labor. "Leader in this prolabor, anti-Duplessis swing was Msgr. Joseph Charbonneau, Archbishop of Montreal, [who] last winter was summarily dismissed. Ostensibly he retired 'for reasons of health.'. . . Against Levesque [and his followers] are all the men who want Quebec to stay exactly as it is, or . . . as it was 50 years ago; for him, the men who believe change...
...newspaper. But the delegates appropriated $50,000 or "Project X," and set up a committee see where the paper-or papers-should be started. The Guild's idealistic plan: to get other unions to back Guild newspapers with funds and subscriptions, but to keep their editorial policies (though prolabor) free from "the vagaries of union politics." Commented the New York Daily News, with tolerant sarcasm: NICE IDEA, GENTS...
Chester Boddy (rhymes with crowed he) hoped to pick up the votes of any Democrats who thought Helen Douglas too much of a Fair Dealer and too stridently prolabor. In his earlier, more venturesome days, their political tracks might have lain confusingly closer: under Boddy the News had once trafficked in some odd political nostrums...
...some Clay County businessmen, reporting both sides made the Sentinel prolabor. Friends of Crowder began stopping him on the street and hinting at reprisals (e.g., advertising cancellations) if he did not "lay off"; his telephone rang with anonymous threats. Advertisers organized a boycott of the Sentinel; 100 subscriptions were canceled. Only then did the Sentinel take a firm stand in the strike. Wrote angry Editor Crowder: "The City Council is bucking the line of human progress at the expense of all the people . . ." To offset the canceled subscriptions, 300 C.I.O. and A.F.L. union members marched in a body...