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...smoke-filled attic of London's trade-union building near Marylebone Station, 70 of the city's 6,000 taximen solemnly resolved that what cabbies needed was their own M.P.-someone in the House of Commons to get them : 1 ) a taxi transport board; 2) "every man his own cab." Cried Alf Wheeler of Hornsey, hoarsely: "Give us a bit of the democracy we ruddy cabbies 'ave braved the blackout...
...Josip Broz returned to Croatia, but not to blacksmithing. His job was to organize a metal-trades union. He had left Austria. He returned to the crazy-quilt kingdom of the South Slavs whose Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins and Macedonians would presently be held together in uneasy union by a tight little dictatorship headed by King Alexander II. Under the dictatorship only the Serbs supported the dynasty. Only tractable parties were legal. Trade unions were outlawed. As a Croat, a Communist and a trade-union organizer, Josip Broz soon found himself in jail. He stayed there five years...
Businessmen and industrialists joined hands with Finland's biggest trade-union leader, oldtime Bolshevik Eero Vuori. Vuori might become a link between Bolshevik-hating Baron Mannerheim and Moscow. For despite Risto Ryti's promise to Hitler, secret talks between Finns and Russians had been resumed in Stockholm. Out of them came a Finnish hope that Moscow would deal with Mannerheim...
Also included are thumbnail sketches (written with fluoroscopic understanding of the trade-union mind) of many of Dubinsky's predecessors and contemporaries. Tailor's Progress is one of the few readable books about labor, due in part to Stolberg's lifelong familiarity with his subject, in part to his clearly thought-out philosophic position (he was Harvard-trained under Professor Emeritus of Philosophy William Ernest Hocking), which strengthens his thinking without getting in the way of his writing, in part to a gift for phrase typified by Stolberg's famed comment...
...plan was prime political bait, thrown out by a Government whose election prospects have been steadily diminished by the rise of the socialist C.C.F. The socialists took their time about commenting. Tory Leader John Bracken damned the scheme outright ("All the earmarks of a political bribe"). Canada's trade-union leaders suspected a move to substitute a dole for higher wages. In low-wage, Catholic Quebec, where the Government hoped to make its biggest hit, there were complaints that the plan discouraged big families. Throughout Canada, the opposition press raised an almost unanimous hullabaloo. The Calgary Herald achieved...