Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manner (TIME, Sept. 22). President of the hod carriers for the past 15 years, he had never been elected. He and his six vice presidents, who were appointed, had continued themselves in office by simply reappointing each other. As his union met in convention last week a rank-&-file revolt threatened, but Mr. Moreschi quickly squashed it and, with the backing of A.F. of L. President William Green, triumphantly won the first election the hod carriers had had in 30 years. After a floor demonstration which brought tears to Mr. Moreschi's eyes, the hod carriers' pious president...
C.I.O.'s big, glowering John L. Lewis, who has many other things to think about, last week had a rank-&-file revolt on his hands. Rank ingratitude, thought John L. Only last spring he had fought and snarled and snorted until he had won for his Pennsylvania miners a boost in pay. And what thanks did he get? A kick in the paunch. All because his miners had been asked to kick in a little more money to the United Mine Workers' treasury...
...striking and closing the mines. In strange alliance, company detectives stood shoulder to shoulder with Mr. Lewis' union organizers, swapping blows with rank & filers (see cut). By week's end an estimated 22,000 men had quit work in the district, mines were closed, and the revolt was spreading to District...
...Still being paged by the British was explosion-whiskered Haj Amin El-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. They want to see him about some Arab riots in Palestine and a revolt in Iraq last spring. The Russians were trying to trace a character known as Roman Gamotta, believed to be a German onetime naval officer who cannot let sleepy Arabs lie. That neither could be found did not add to the royal boots-man's popularity with the Allies...
...their condition was improving, that of the German Occupation was not. France was near a state of national revolt. In Paris a night-walking German civilian was savagely beaten up. Pistols suddenly cracked in the streets-at a Nazi sergeant, at a civilian official of the Occupation Army, at a second Nazi noncom. Marcel Gitton, a former Communist deputy who had recently played ball with the Nazis, was shot dead by a young bicyclist in blue jeans and a beret. Despite death sentences threatened for railway sabotage, roundhouse turntables on the Paris-Brittany main line were blown...