Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week in Tampa, Florida, the American Federation of Labor will probably commit suicide. Unless there is a miracle the dominant craft unions will expell the ten unions forming the Committee for Industrial Organization and by this stroke will split off the militant groups which are determined to organize the bulk of the working class. Labor solidarity may go out of the window, but the labor movement is far from being knifed in the back, as President Green of the A.F. of L. claims...
...presently engaged. In Tampa, Fla. next week meets the American Federation of Labor to decide, by ratifying or rejecting the Executive Council's suspension of John Lewis' United Mine Workers and its C. I. 0. allies (TIME, Aug. 17), whether organized Labor shall be fatefully split into two rival factions. Prime movers for peace have been two C. I. O. leaders David Dubinsky of International Ladies' Garment Workers and Max Zaritsky of United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers. At their instance, the A. F. of L. Executive Council last month appointed a committee of three to meet with...
...that he might best serve his cause by a vote for Roosevelt. Nominee Thomas, who got a large non-Socialist protest vote in 1932, could reasonably conclude that the electorate this year loved him not less, but Franklin Roosevelt more. In addition, his Party's right wing split off, merged last summer with New York State's American Labor Party. Neither Communists nor Socialists were displeased at losing strength to this new faction, under whose emblem last week some 275,000 New Yorkers voted for Roosevelt and Lehman. Red Browder had proclaimed from the start that his Party...
...team hops from the huddle into the formation shown here, the line balanced, the backs in the characteristic T formation, and the ends slightly split. The T formation of the backs, from which quick opening plays and plays on which the quarterback handles the ball may be run, is, like the balanced line, characteristic of the Notre Dame system. While the signal for the play to be run has been given in the huddle, the quarterback calls another set to give the cadence of the hop-shift to his mates...
...Adam's guilt our souls hath split, his fault is charg'd upon...