Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ignoring orders from the Labor Party and prominent British Labor leaders, half a million British proletarians liberally sprinkled with Jews went on an anti-Fascist rampage last week which turned out to be London's biggest riot in years. Every provocation had been given the proletariat by No. 1 British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, who had announced weeks ahead that 5,000 of his Blackshirts would march through the tortuous streets of London's Jewish quarter east of the Tower. This was interpreted by Jews and workers alike as a challenge to battle, the British Communist Party hurling...
...automatically have raised the wages of proletarian factory workers and other small-salaried employees on a sliding scale in exactly the proportion that French living costs rose-as they are sure to rise-in terms of the devalued or "Blum franc." This attempt by the Communists to exempt the proletariat, in which they have their main following, from the sacrifices other French classes are being asked to bear, brought down on Premier Blum the greatest outburst of Parliamentary wrath in months. Representatives of other classes showed not the least embarrassment in rebuking the presumptuous proletariat, and cheers greeted a resounding...
...seek refuge in the Argentine Embassy. They said he had appealed to have the Argentine cruiser Veinticinco de Mayo stand by at the Spanish port of Alicante, ready to rescue the President, his pretty young wife and other prominent Republicans from the expected fury of Madrid's proletariat. Dressed always in proletarian blue overalls, Premier Largo Caballero was said to be holding President Azaña virtually a prisoner. Desperate, the Spanish Cabinet issued a manifesto appealing to the "people of Madrid" to somewhat paradoxically "organize and perfect the defense of the Capital, so as to be prepared...
...hark back to such Rooseveltian phrases as "hatred of entrenched greed." "unscrupulous money changers." "discredited special interests.'' "resplendent economic autocracy,'1 "enslavement for the public," "the forces of privilege and greed," and "economic royalists," with which our President demonstrates his yearning for the votes of the proletariat, and cease wondering...
...Caballero and his Cabinet's strong man Air and Marine Minister Indalecio Prieto splashed out in Madrid papers the grim fact that in Madrid there were no more potatoes, fresh eggs or butter, scant meat or sugar and hardly any milk or olive oil. To these challenges the proletariat rose as 20,000 enlisted to fight as Red Militiamen-in a day and crowds kept milling around the Spanish Lenin's office, causing Largo Caballero to emerge from time to time on a balcony with clenched fist upraised and shout, "La victoria es nuestra! Victory is ours...