Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This schism in the ranks can ruin the A.F. of L., but not the labor movement. Vertical or industrial organization is most suited to modern conditions, where machinery is eliminating the need for special skill and makes all labor of about the same grade and value. If present developments continue, the C.I.O. may embrace all vertical unions, leaving the crafts to the Federation. While the horizontal unions now have some 2,500,000 members, there are 23,000,000 workers whom the A.F. of L. has failed to attract at all along craft lines, and presumably these men will join...
...shipowners' ranks, as 27 coastwise companies made separate overtures to the longshoremen, the chief Pacific union with which they were concerned since they hire almost all their seamen on the cheaper Atlantic. Deep-sea Pacific shippers still were obliged to consider all maritime unions. With this schism in sight, Harry Bridges would have preferred delaying strike action. But the Maritime Federation he had so carefully built up proved his Frankenstein. Standing to gain nothing by a compromise between coastwise shippers and Pacific longshoremen, the other unions in the Federation demanded a strike. They were led in this...
...George's Church last week these, with the aid of four Orthodox priests, consecrated Samuel David. With his gilt-&-scarlet crown firmly on his swart head, Archbishop David thereupon waited for the Patriarch of Antioch to grant him jurisdiction, to which he felt canonically entitled. Failing that, a schism was forecast among confused U. S. Syrians...
...confused with the Salvation Army, the Volunteers of America was founded in the U. S. in 1896 by General Ballington Booth & wife following a Booth family schism...
...call your attention, in the interest of accurate reporting, to one essential error. You stated that in 1890 "some members, deciding that Emanuel Swedenborg's revelations of the Scriptures' hidden meanings had hidden meanings all their own, began to incorporate his writings in their services. Result: a schism, creating the General Church of the New Jerusalem which now has 2,500 members and the No. 1 Swedenborgian academy at Bryn Athyn, Pa." The real basis for the schism lay, not in any hidden meanings within hidden meanings, but rather in the belief that the theological writings of Emanuel...