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...Government, said the Tribune, should nationalize the M.C.C. for the same reason that it had nationalized the coal mines: efficiency. It foresaw the day when players' wages would rise, trade-union officials would sit on the selection committee and the flag of the National Cricket Corp. would fly over M.C.C. headquarters. "Then England's team would really be England's team, and every player could feel that he was representing the entire country, not just a few private individuals...
Last February, Joe Curran was sold a bill of goods. The name of the goods: the Committee for Maritime Unity. From a trade-union point of view the idea seemed fine; C.M.U. would be the united front of all maritime and longshoremen unions. Ham-handed Joe Curran took his big East Coast National Maritime Union into the group, lined it up with five other much smaller seamen's unions and Harry Bridges' big West Coast International Longshoremen...
Curran and Bridges were cochairmen. United, they won substantial wage gains. Big Joe was happy-but he was also uneasy. The reason for his uneasiness was that the top layer of C.M.U.'s officialdom was dominated by Communist party-liners, and in the midst of trade-union victory they were playing their own game, as slow-thinking Joe Curran slowly found...
Roll Call. In Brazil, after ten years of repression, the Communists, with an estimated 150,000 members, were able in last December's election to poll 600,000 of a total 5,000,000 votes. In Argentina, their 120,000-strong party recently sent its overalled trade-union leaders back to the factories to outdo Perón at his own game. In Cuba 151,000 Communists control the mighty trade unions, and liberal President Ramón Grau San Martin, whose election they fought, is reduced to sitting on their lap. In Chile, with 40,000 militants, they...
...forbidding gatherings of more than 20 natives on mine property, police quickly smashed mass meetings. Other cops swept through the Communists' and Springbok Legion's (a progressive veterans' organization) offices throughout the land. Most of the Central Committee of the puny Communist Party, together with known trade-union leaders, were arrested. Investigation showed that the calling of the strike was opposed by Communist and union leaders, who were overruled by rank-&-file pressure. The strike was crushed, but South Africa's dry air last week still crackled with tension between 7,700,000 Negroes...