Word: proletariats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world-economic crisis of this year and a good many next years is not, as the world supposes, the temporary consequence of war, revolution, inflation, and payment of debts. It has been willed. In all essentials it is the product of the deliberate work of the leaders of the proletariat." Laborers will not like his diagnosis of the cause of unemployment: "Unemployment stands everywhere in exact proportion to the height of the political wage-tariffs. . . . In Russia, Japan. China, and India there is no lack of work, because there are no luxury wages." Many a disputatious citizen will take umbrage...
...name of a four-act play by A. N. Afinogenow which, for the last two years, has been the outstanding theatrical attraction of Soviet Russia. Unlike most recent Russian literary works, Fear, though written by a proletarian, is not Soviet propaganda. It aims to show the miseries of the proletariat under Soviet rule, to make a case for the survivors of the Tsarist aristocracy. Its hero, Ivan Ilich Borodin, scientific director of the Institute of Physiological Stimuli, is patently patterned after Physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1904. At first Fear was banned...
...demand the floor!" shouted George Dimitroff. "In the name of the world proletariat . . ." Judge Bünger cut the battling Bulgar short. "This trial," he shouted, "is finished...
...filled with idealism and brain trusts, to force some concessions down the delicate throats of the industrialists. But that this could continue in a laissez-faire system where power in synonymous with wealth, in inconceivable. Any permanent concessions to labor must be the result of bludgeoning by an organized proletariat...
...that Mussolini is a power unto himself, the second question will appear wholly gratuitous. But to the remaining minority the query will have its point. Even though the wage cutting scheme be inferior to the price-raising, alternative, II Duce might infinitely prefer to slash at the defenceless proletariat in the usual fashion rather than tread so heavily on the toes of his fixed-income supporters. Even though wage-cutting, as R. G. Hawtrey has pointed out from his eyrie in the Bank of England may not prove sufficient to increase exports to any appreciable degree in a world...