Word: proletariats
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...every working pithead in the United Kingdom last week smut-faced coal miners voted in favor of a nation-wide strike, 409,351 to 29,215. Yet afterward, with the characteristic attitude of such leaders as Britain's proletariat has been able to find, Secretary Ebenezer Edwards of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, which conducted the poll, commented: "Nobody wants to strike...
...TIME, Nov. 18) but warming to their Capitalist cockles was the post-election firming up last week of sterling, sound City shares and Treasury bonds. Though dull as a whole, the campaign had provided just enough brickbats and pieces of lead pipe hurled by Britain's unique proletariat safely over Conservative candidates' heads. There were no bloody riots, best of all no facing of grim domestic issues like the Dole. With genial intuition and not too brazenly, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin caused the vote to be taken last week almost solely on a double question of foreign policy...
...while the flesh & blood candidate around the corner sulked. John got all the electioneering he cared to hear from broadcasts. In the famed "depressed areas" of Britain, where grinding poverty stalks and almost nobody has a radio, local candidates got all too much attention from the enraged but helpless proletariat. "Judas!" roared the miners of Seaham at snowy-crested Candidate James Ramsay MacDonald and broke up his meetings again & again. When Ishbel MacDonald. no longer apple-cheeked but pale with strain, tried to speak for her father, she too was jeered off the platform. So was onetime Engine Greaser James...
...After one look at the chief election poster of His Majesty's Government (see p. 19) and another at that of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition (see below) the apathy of John Bull seemed to do him credit. In so far as British Labor is articulate, the proletariat voted to go to war with Italy when the strongly anti-Fascist Trades Union Congress demanded that full military and naval sanctions be applied if necessary to whip Il Duce (TIME, Sept. 23). Yet last week Labor Party Leader Major Clement Attlee was imploring voters to "Stop War! Vote Labor...
...Morgan affair last week was significant because it pointed up sharply a major Fascist fact, seldom realized outside Italy, namely that under the Charter of Labor the proletariat of Italy is guaranteed rights so drastic that Capital must frequently pay through the nose. Not only journalists, though they are the most pampered, but Italian workers generally see that while Fascism has made striking a crime, it also punishes with heavy cash damages an employer who simply "fires" an employe because he feels like firing...