Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soviet efforts abroad to create an impression that Dictator Joseph Stalin no longer tries to foment the World Revolution of the World Proletariat were again upset in Moscow last week by the Communist Party's official Propaganda Chief, candid if clumsy Comrade Alexei Ivanovich Stetsky...
...Before the Soviet power can fulfill its function it must be established throughout the world-that is what it was born for!" declared Stalin's Stetsky, "Our country is the shock brigade of the World Proletariat. We will continue to fight as a Proletarian Dictatorship for the World Revolution...
...Does the proletariat like it? An Italian who knows is His Excellency Tullio Cianetti, onetime organized labor boss in Turin ("Italy's Detroit"), today still exuberant and under 40 but a member of the Fascist Grand Council and President of the Corporative State's nation-wide Confederation of Workers in Industry...
...Proletariat's Grand Councilman, Excellency Cianetti last week declared: "The experiment of the 40-hour week is for six months, that is until April 16. It is conducted through contracts signed between representatives of the employers' syndicates and the workers' syndicates in Italian industry. Since the worker gets the same hourly wage while his week's salary is less by eight hours' pay, the experiment is not an added burden to the employer, as was the case when a shorter week with the same weekly pay was tried in the United States, and it does...
Significance. Canada's Dole-hungry proletariat has just terrified Canada's rich, pious and Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett (a personal friend of King George) into turning his political coat, emerging as a New Deal radical (TIME, Jan. 14). Just how frightened were the Conservative leaders of National Government in London last week? They were not frightened. Neither was the average British Islander. In tradition, which Canada lacks, Britain is strong. Part of that tradition is that she is ruled by "The Families"; that even great pieces of Socialism like the Dole will be administered by gentlemen...