Word: trade-union
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...life was packed with training for the position he now occupies. His father, a German immigrant and trade-union leader in Wheeling, W. Va., schooled his four sons in the virtues of debate and the blessings of unionism. Walter took his father's precepts to heart. At high school and college he organized social study clubs and led their debates. He lost his first two jobs (at Wheeling Steel and Ford Motor) because of union activity...
Coen: Why don't you get down to your size and get down to the type of job you are supposed to be doing as a trade-union leader and talk about the money you would like to have for your people and let the labor statesmanship go to hell for a while? Reuther: Translate that so I know what you mean. ... I understand you think our position makes it more difficult to work out a solution because we are getting into issues here that lie outside the narrow limits of collective bargaining...
...meeting wore on. Interpreters got mixed up, translated into the wrong language, argued with one another. In more than the literal sense, the four Allies around the table spoke different languages. When the question of "democratic" trade-union elections came up, the Western Allies stalled. They had long since found out that the Soviets had their own peculiar definition of "democratic." The Russian glibly championed the cause of labor against the Briton, who represented a Labor Government...
...Left, a strange & wonderful thing not to be confused with the prewar '"Left," is led by the Communists, supported by the top cadres of the powerful trade-union federation, CGT. They represent, by last week's returns, approximately 30% of the electorate. In the new Assembly, they hold twice as many seats as they did in the prewar parliament...
Blazed Meany: "Let there be no quibbling or misunderstanding. We do not recognize or concede that the Russian worker groups are trade unions. The Soviet worker groups are formally and actually instruments of the state. These so-called trade unions actively support the Soviet system of worker blacklists and deportations to labor camps that have resulted in virtual enslavement, for millions. . . . The so-called Russian trade-union movement . . . has denied to the workers of Soviet Russia the basic human freedoms that American workers hold prerequisite to a free nation...