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Sidney Hillman, strong boy of U.S. labor and champion of the common man, now visiting London to help make plans for a world trade-union conference in February, bunked in at swank Claridge's Hotel in London, where he found that two of his fellow guests were King George II of Greece, King Peter II of Yugoslavia...
...politest dispute on record. All over the East and Midwest, motherly, well-dressed women emerged as labor leaders. The pickets outside telephone buildings sang the latest swing tunes instead of old trade-union chestnuts like Solidarity Forever...
...whites who have bravely taken the Negro's part (sheriffs who have braved mobs to protect Negro prisoners, women who have leagued against lynching, trade-union organizers who have risked life & limb), the authors pay tribute. But Negroes, says Dr. Gordon B. Hancock, are bewildered by the number of sympathetic whites whose "finer feelings are obscured beneath a lack of moral courage ... a kind of 'Pontius Pilatism.'" The more cynical Negroes merely conclude that the saving grace of the white man is "his lack of unanimity in any program ... of oppression...
Equally significant was the Congress' willingness to waive a sacred trade-union right: German forced labor should be used for the rebuilding of Nazi-devastated Europe. So far, only Russia has announced its intention to use German forced labor. Exclaimed excitable Will Lawther, Mineworkers' Federation president: "It is sheer humbug ... to hail the Red Army in one breath, but in the other to say 'to hell with you' when it comes to footing the bill...
Cried the Soviet trade-union paper Trud: "Iranian newspapers are inquiring why Premier Said does not resign, as are all public circles in Iran who understand that continuation of Premier Said's policy is harming the interests of Iran...