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...well aware of the hazards. If John Lewis went to jail, all organized labor might strike in sympathy. Said A.F.L. President William Green, a usually mild man: "The workers of the nation resent this action on the part of the Government. . . . All American labor unites with the mine workers in condemning this reversion to the archaic philosophy of government by injunction." A general strike was a possibility also if the injunction was retained. In either event, the mines would stay closed...
...more than he bargained for. After a three-day battle the right-wingers emerged with a resolution stating that the committee members "resent and reject efforts of the Communist Party or other political parties and their adherents to interfere in the affairs of the C.I.O. This convention serves notice that we will not tolerate such interference...
...Foot, Laborite M.P., said that "American political ideology really is about 30 years behind Europe," saw a "whirlwind brewing on the other side of the Atlantic." The Conservative Daily Mail chided the embittered critics: "Such comment is as impertinent as it is stupid. The Americans have every ground for resenting it, in the same way that we resent uninformed American criticisms of our own actions. . . . The American people have exercised their democratic privilege of voting for the party that pleases them...
Bostonians might resent such darts if an outsider threw them. But Dahl hails from neighboring Quincy (pronounced-in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts-"Quinzy"), is accepted as one of the family. He started on the Herald in 1928 as a $20-a-week illustrator. By last week, on his 39th birthday, his bosses (who hand sonorous, syndicated Columnist Bill Cunningham $25,000 a year) had raised Boston's top local cartooner to $115 a week...
...there is one, and only one, state of affairs which could possibly induce us to take such a step. If a time should come when the people of eight provinces believe . . . that their lives and destinies are being controlled and influenced by Quebec. . .it is conceivable that they might resent it so forcefully that some other condition than confederation might be preferable. This is not the fantastic projection of a nightmare. It is a possibility...