Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the North this. . . . Why have you set yourselves up as arbiters to undertake to say to us that our living conditions are not proper and do not constitute the standard of living that you seem to think we should have?" He sat down amid a chorus of enthusiastic rebel yells...
Author of Rebel, Priest and Prophet...
...first Sit-Down in the automobile industry-a protest against a company ban on wearing union buttons-occurred just a year ago in a General Motors' Fisher Body plant in Atlanta. Last week, appropriately if unconsciously, a group of rebel United Automobile Workers celebrated that Sit-Down's first anniversary by sitting down once in the Detroit Cadillac plant, twice in the Fisher Body plant in Pontiac, where 14,700 General Motors workers were promptly thrown out of work.* Outlawed by the union, unsupported by officers of the local, the second Fisher Body strike was soon down...
...Rich Catalan farmers, who experienced the recent Anarchist-Communist disorders, appear to favor the Rebel side as much as they do the present regime in Barcelona and it was indicated that the Negrin Government might assume a more conservative policy in order to win over these farmers and business men." The Negrin Government, not yet settled in their new offices in Barcelona, announced simultaneously that death would be the penalty for any Catalan trying to escape into France...
...While many are talking of a Rebel victory others speak of a 'truce...