Word: trade-union
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...Kremlin was getting increasingly concerned by the stubborn survival of that old "capitalistic superstition," Christianity, inside the Soviet Union. The trade-union paper Trud sent out appeals to all "local intelligentsia" to get out and sell the true faith, atheism. Doctors should propagandize their patients, veterinarians should lecture farm workers, added Radio Moscow...
...duty of stamping out God. Children, Pravda complained, are especially vulnerable to these dangerous doctrines. The Literary Gazette complained that farmers in the province of Kirov had recently been allowed to abandon their fields for a three-day religious festival that was "only an excuse for drinking." And the trade-union paper, Trud, demanded that the government close down a spring near Moscow that has been attracting thousands (including even some Soviet bigwigs) to its "healing waters...
...pound time bomb that detonated in Hitler's East Prussian field headquarters on July 20, 1944 killed four men around him, but left a barely injured Hitler alive to take a terrible revenge. He had thousands of suspects rounded up - field marshals, trade-union leaders, ambassadors, mayors, army officers, politicians. Many were jailed or slain. The eight ringleaders were tortured for days by Gestapo experts. Finally. Hitler said: "It is my wish that they be hanged like cattle." The eight were stripped, and as they shivered in the chilly dawn, their necks were encircled by short, thin string attached...
...that "doctors don't strike," were shocked. Said the Socialist daily Davar: "The doctors' action is unprecedented and conflicts with all ethical principles of the medical profession." And nobody jumped harder on them^than Histradrut, the high temple of militant trade unionism. It suspended the doctors' trade-union membership and summoned them before its court of honor for breach of discipline...
...movement. On the contrary, most of its leaders learned their guiding principles from Jesuit fathers of St. Louis, who founded Belize's St. John's College in 1896 and taught Roman Catholic trade union-i§m in extension courses begun in 1947. The P.U.P.'s trade-union twin, the Gener al Workers Union, is an outgrowth of these courses, and George Price, the slender 35-year-old descendant of slaves who runs both outfits, is a St. John's graduate and a Catholic. Say the priests: "If we hadn't stepped in, the Reds...