Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fitzgerald had the standard answer for that charge. No one should be booted out of a union, he said blandly, whether "Communist, Socialist, Democrat or Republican . . . because of color, creed, religion or political belief." He hotly denied that he was a Communist himself. So did his top assistants, Party-Liners Julius Emspak and James Matles...
Strong Words. The outburst surprised old (75) Socialist Premier Camille Huysmans. To deputies trapped with him inside Parliament during the riot he said: "We have already spent 7½ billion francs on them. They have no right to complain...
Canada's Liberal Government, which has been pushed steadily left by the socialist CCF, last week went the whole way in its control of wheat. The Government whipped through two readings in the House of Commons a bill to permit the Government Wheat Board to buy, sell and regulate the marketing of all Canadian wheat until at least 1950. (The third and final reading of the bill would be routine...
Without a Murmur. The CCF, which feels the standard socialist urge for state trading, thought this was wonderful. No one was surprised at that. The surprise was that men who believed in free enterprise and free trading swallowed the bill without a murmur. The only loud protest came from the Progressive Conservatives in Parliament who cried that the "Government was out to outsocialize the socialists." But the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, which represents the farmers, announced that they were "100% behind the bill." The Government had counted on the farmers' long-standing dislike of the feast or famine days...
This was "free exile." Conditions in the lagiers were much worse, and often fatal. A member of the executive council of the Polish Socialist Party was sent to a gold-mining camp in eastern Siberia. The work day was 12 to 15 hours long. Since the ground was frozen most of the time, the mining was done largely with crowbars and chisels. The size of the bread ration depended on the amount of work performed. Feeble, inefficient or unwilling workers were taken aside and shot...