Word: syndicalists
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...small Bavarian community as they struggle to ride the varying political winds since World War II. With only slight hesitation, they shift course and run before Nazism, fear of Nazism, total pacification, and anti-communist militancy. Serving as a foil to the townspeople is Alois Grubel, a one-time syndicalist, who has been made simple, sterile, and soprano during his stay in a concentration camp. There are two Aloises, one wishing only to breed rabbits and sing in the town choir, thus frustrating and embittering his wife who longs for children, and the other an overly indoctrinated and obtuse handyman...
...Wisconsin can hardly wait-although socialism to him has a different meaning than to the Soviet boss. After a long and transparently loaded survey of U.S. history, his book asks a final question in academic gobbledygook: Is the nation really forced into a choice between "government by a syndicalist oligarchy relying on expansion" (roughly, the U.S. Progressive-New Deal movement) and "government by a class-conscious industrial gentry" (paternalistic capitalism)? Historian Williams' answer: There is a third possibility, and the U.S. ought to create it: namely, "the first truly democratic socialism in the world...
...those of Emperor Augustus, Charles V, and Napoleon." Such men as Franco, concluded the Catholic Ya, "are the instruments of the highest designs of Providence." The Monarchist A.B.C. recalled Vichy Marshal Petain's remark that Generalissimo Franco's "is the cleanest sword in Europe." Only the Syndicalist paper Pueblo avoided sycophantic assent. Wrote Pueblo sharply: "We believe that rhetoric is indissolubly united to the decadence of Spain over the past centuries...
...heart attack; in Burlingame. Calif. Tattooed, Norwegian-born Harry Lundeberg never ducked a waterfront strike or a dock brawl, feuded for years with the West Coast longshoremen's left-wing Boss Harry Bridges (and once got a smashed jaw from a C.I.O.-swung baseball bat), had an old syndicalist's hatred of both Communists and capitalists ("Squeeze the shipowners . . . make them lose dough...
Elections in Argentina's first syndicalist province are scheduled for April. Radicals and Socialists, angry at Perón's secrecy, made plans last week to boycott them. They also pointed out that the trade unionists' double-voting privilege violates the national constitution's provision that "all inhabitants of this state are equal before the law." But there is little that they can do about it. Argentina's courts belong...