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...rugged, hard-driving steel worker who learned to speak fluent English while working for Henry Ford in Detroit. Britain's 15 delegates were headed by veteran T.U.C. Secretary Sir Walter Citrine,* who spoke for British labor. The U.S. delegation, led by P.A.C. Chairman Sidney Hillman and U.A.W. President Rolland Jay Thomas, spoke only for the C.I.O. The A.F. of L. had haughtily refused to sit down with the Communist Russians...
Died. Romain Rolland, 78, impassioned French novelist and musician, 1915 Nobel Prizewinner for his great ten-volume, semi-autobiographical Jean-Christophe; in Vézelay, France. Long a pacifist, he gave his Nobel Prize money to feed war victims in World War I, retired from France to 24 years "above the battle" in voluntary Swiss exile. Returning to France in 1938, he supported World...
These words, heard by all U.S. labor, had particular pertinence to burly Rolland Jay Thomas' own union. U.A.W., largest union in the U.S. and at times the most ungovernable, was halving wildcat trouble again last week. Seven U.A.W.-organized Chrysler plants (11,700 employes) stopped making guns, plane and truck parts. Basis of the dispute: whether A.F. of L. or C.I.O. truckmen should deliver soda pop to the plants. Unioneer Thomas promptly ousted 15 officers of a U.A.W. local for participating in the "soda pop war," instructed his men to ignore picketlines...
...Rolland Jay Thomas went to Texas to get arrested. He finally succeeded...
...Romain Rolland, 77-year-old Nobel Prizewinning novelist (Jean-Christophe)* long unheard from, was reported in a German concentration camp. A longtime pacifist, he had returned to France and supported the war after nearly 25 above-the-battle years in Switzerland...