Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close-packed, triad formations, the ocean changed to a duck-marsh, with here wedges of swift teal (the fighters), here a group of bigger black duck (scouts), and there a string of geese (the bombers). In about a half-hour enough planes were put in the sky to panic-strike, if not devastate, any city in the world. New Yorkers who had seen the Navy's great air "raid" (TIME, May 19) or readers of Hearstpapers who two days prior to the review had seen Cartoonist Windsor McKay's nightmarishly memorable picture of a city gassed from...
...Only this week, dissenting from the majority verdict in a double taxation case, he spoke in characteristic tones. "As the decisions now stand," he wrote, "I see hardly any limit but the sky to the invalidating of those rights (the constitutional rights of the states) if they happen to strike a majority of this court as for any reason undesirable. I cannot believe that the (Fourteenth) Amendment was intended to give us carte blanche to embody our economic or moral beliefs in its prohibitions...
Words stirred Gene mystically. The "Labor Movement" caught him up. He helped organize the Terre Haute lodge of the new Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen ("Benevolence, Sobriety, Industry"), rose to leadership in this moribund organization, revived it, resigned abruptly because of its opposition to strikes. In 1893 he developed his "one big union" idea in the form of the American Railway Union, led it successfully through the Great Northern strike, saw it disintegrate after the Pullman strike a year later. For contempt of a labor injunction he was jailed for six months, was impregnated with Socialism by a Milwaukee visitor, Victor...
...Socialism split and divide again and again. With each group he would lose patience and move leftward. The Knights of Labor were too idealistic for him, too nonmilitant. The A. F. of L. (''Unionism pure and simple") was too non-political under Samuel Gompers. The railway brotherhoods, opposed to strikes, sought too hard to become "respectable." The Industrial Workers of the World gave promise of a big rival union until it be came an organization of bums addicted to sabotage. Debs believed in political revolution by votes, not in physical revolution by torch and bomb. Significance. Debs was a character...
...intends to use very little dialogue, if any, and asserts that the sound should not supply action but raise it to a higher emotional pitch. He freely criticised his own four pictures, "Strike", "Potemkin", "Ten Days That Shook the World", and "Old and New", flashes from the last three of which will illustrate his speech tonight...