Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed by Norman Thomas and Earl Browder. To this Mr. Thomas turned a cold shoulder, preferring if possible to avoid a new split in his party. The Communists, said he, "have suddenly changed from a disruptive role in the unions, from accent on inevitable great-scale violence and party dictatorship to a wiser role in the unions, but in politics to a bewilderingly opportunistic role. Their accent is on a half-baked immediate program." First excitement in the divided convention came when the Right delegation from New York appeared on the floor to claim seats already occupied by the Left...
Pudgy Jim Thomas started his career as an errand boy in a chemist's shop, became a wiper in a locomotive yard, later helped organize the railwaymen's union. It was Jim Thomas who made it possible for British railway employes to have the highest wage scale of any union in the realm. With James Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Snowden, Thomas was one of the founders of the British Labor Party. In the House of Commons since 1910, he has served as a Cabinet Minister for the past seven years...
...world by Hugh Ruttledge, leader of the fifth British mountain-climbing assault in 15 years on Mt. Everest. It had taken the party more than three months to get from London to their present height. Mountaineers, aware that 14 men have so far lost their lives trying to scale Everest, were of the gloomy opinion that the worst was yet to come...
...better working conditions. To agitate for these ends is nominally the job of the International Seamen's Union of America. which is divided into three districts, Pacific, Atlantic and Great Lakes. The Pacific section came out of the bloody 1934 San Francisco general strike with a pay scale of $62.50 a month, overtime pay, control of their hiring halls. On the east coast, however, the Union remained in conservative hands, wangled only a $57.50 pay scale with no overtime. The rank & file began demanding the west coast scale. When the Union failed to get it after the old wage...
ISSUE APRIL ' 20. AS ENGLISH SUBSCRIBER KNOWING FACTS CONSTRUCTIVE WORK OXFORD GROUP'S INTERNATIONAL SCALE OPERATIONS EUROPE, I READ YOUR TINY PICTURE ITS WORK WITH AMAZEMENT...