Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor's sweep toward power continued to surge and boil across the land last week. Keeping in the van. rank & file motor workers set the week's keynote, showing by a fresh wave of sit-downs that they were getting out of their leaders' hands (see p. 20). In Wilmington, Del., a short-lived general strike called in support of striking truck drivers sent flying squads of unionists roving the city's streets, tossing bricks through windows of trolleys, busses, stores. In Albert Lea, Minn., retaliating for the smashing of picket lines and a tear...
...worst outbreak of unauthorized sit-downs and walkouts to date shut nine G. M. plants in Flint and Pontiac, including the big Flint plant which makes all Chevrolet motors. A few of the strikes were in protest against discharge of union employes, but most were ostensibly called because rank & file hotheads felt they were not getting enough representation on shop committees, that their grievances were not being settled quickly enough. Thoroughly out of patience, G. M.'s Vice President Knudsen sent U. A. W.'s President Homer Martin a stern letter reminding him of the union...
...henchmen have been making too many mistakes. In a tactically sound proclamation J. Stalin gently beat his breast as he cried: "We should not think that if we are members of the Central Committee of People's Commissars we possess all the knowledge necessary to give correct leadership. Rank in itself gives neither knowledge nor experience. We must listen attentively to the voice of the masses and of the rank and file of the party, to the voice of the so-called little people...
...things in the main, are responsible for the tempest in the teapot. First is their well known political views. But "concluding appointments" are given daily to men in all fields, when crowded departments hold out no chances for them to rise to professorial rank. There is no reflection on the abilities of Dr. Walsh and Dr. Sweezy. The Economics Department is unique in that the great percentage of its professorial chairs are held by comparatively young men, and, as professorships are permanent appointments, no future is held out for the large number of instructors now rising in the field...
These three were "comrades" to their Red soldiers until suddenly upped by Dictator Stalin to the hitherto capitalist rank of "Marshal" with enormous five-pointed stars of rank in their lapels. Millionaire Ambassador Davies called for a toast "to the Red Army, an army of citizenry devoted to peace...