Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trade Unions- After a three-week session of the Central Trade Union Council, Director Zharikov of the Bureau of Foreign Workers, Director Kotov, lately chief of the Social Insurance Bureau, Assistant Director Antoshkin of the Scientific Research Institute and Comrade Miliutan, editor of a trade union magazine-all four of them prominent trade union officials-were arrested on charges of "malfeasance, Trotskyism and sabotage." The Council further charged the trade unions as a whole with neglecting their main duty, the social welfare of the worker-supervising sanatoriums, sick benefits, old age benefits.* A Stalin-inspired ultimatum thundered that the trade...
...that instant a stage trick of lighting makes the background fade out, and a scene of a barnyard as a hen sees it comes into the visitor's view. The rooster is enormous (see cut). The loudspeaker continues: ". . . for there is a social system in the barnyard. One hen ... can peck another hen . . . without being pecked back, and a third hen can peck still a fourth . . . without fear of retaliation. The rooster stands at the head of this social system, but beneath him,' in a definite social order, are arranged the various hens. This social system does...
...high in the social system does not ordinarily peck those low in the system. The others give way to her whenever she appears. On the other hand, the hen low in the system may be very cruel toward its subordinates...
...social system plays an important part in the life of the hens. Those low in the system secure less food and are unable to keep themselves as neat as the hens near the top of the order. A sick bird drops to the. bottom of the social system because there is little sympathy among hens or possibly because the other hens fail to recognize the sick individual as one of their group...
...pecking order throughout life. They remember other individuals in their set after isolation of half a year. Among birds, only parrots are superior to hens in the length of time they can remember faces. Pecking orders are found in many groups of animals but are often modified by other social factors...