Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Revolt in Hungary
...America and Radio Free Europe lending them encouragement. A close scrutiny of propaganda broadcasts would undoubtedly show that no promise had been made to come to their aid if they started something, but desperate people might not have noticed this final omission. The real lesson of the June 1953 revolt in East Germany and of the Poznan riots in Poland last summer was that the U.S., for all its sympathy (a quality easy to ridicule when it is not backed up by something stronger) was not prepared to go to the rescue of an armed uprising in any satellite...
...Square to honor the memory of their men. As they trudged through the rain, some bore flowers, but most carried only thin shoppers' bundles of bread, cabbages, onions. Threading past the wreckage of their city, they chanted the words of Sandor Petofi, poet of Hungary's 1848 revolt: "We shall never be slaves...
...revolt was uncoordinated, lacked funds and headquarters, had as its leader a little-known rank-and-filer named Don Rarick, 37, for 19 years a worker at U.S. Steel's Irvin works. A fortnight ago Rarick was also named to head the slate that will oppose the McDonald team in the union-wide elections next February. Said Rarick last week: "I dare McDonald to show that he's got as many steelworkers behind...
Last week, taking his first official notice of the union revolt, McDonald called in newsmen, testily told them that dues protests had reached the point where they were creating "confusion, turmoil and distrust, and promoting dual unionism." He warned the protestors that their insubordination might well lead to expulsion from the union. Furthermore, even if the "dissenters" mustered a fourth of all the locals, as required by the Constitution to call a special convention, there would still be no such meeting. For the Constitution also held, said McDonald, that special conventions could deal only with "new business"; the dues matter...