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...members which it has managed to keep, now represents 95% of the industry. On mine operators John Lewis riveted the "check-off"-that potent device whereby employers automatically deduct union dues from payrolls, turn the proceeds over to the union, which is thus kept strong and well-fed. Result: U.M.W. today has a war chest of some $2,000,000. From 1934 John Lewis can date his ambition to reorganize the traditionally craft-built A. F. of L. on industrial lines, like his U.M.W. After failing to get what he wanted from the A. F. of L.'s conventions...
...There was never any intention of stopping Mussolini!" was Opposition Leader Attlee's blanket charge against the National Government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. "In the background was always the idea that Italy might be needed for an alliance against someone else. The result was that Sanctions never had a trial...
...Secretary Anthony Eden to Geneva to get Sanctions lifted. Snapped Labor's Sir Stafford Cripps: "He goes as the Government's decoy duck!" Against the abandonment of Sanctions His Majesty's Loyal Opposition further battled by presenting a motion to censure His Majesty's Government. Result: victory 384-to-170 for Stanley Baldwin...
...stayed in her room, tormented herself and the family, thought of suicide. The Snyders did not own Holinge, which complicated Bengt's problem. Its owner was a distant relative, an eccentric named Charles-Henri de Grévy, who had fled Sweden 20 years before as a result of shady stock manipulation. So the first shock to ambitious Bengt's resolution came when he learned that his mother had been unlawfully selling old de Grévy's possessions, that his other heirs might prosecute. Nevertheless that glimpse of his mother as a swindler was nothing...
...Rioting in feeling between Palestine (1 which caused pro-British a and number of pro-French deaths this factions, 2 spring was the monarchists and result of the republicans, 3 Arabs and Jews, 4 pro-Italian and pro-British factions, 5 Communists and Fascists...