Word: trade-union
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...National Committee is composed of workers and writers, soldiers and officers, trade-union functionaries and political figures, people with the most different political views and convictions who only a year ago would have considered such unification impossible...
...long view explains Anglo-Russian attempts to maintain cordial trade-union relations in spite of their failure to interest U.S. trade unionists. A new international federation of labor is in the cards for the postwar years. Sir Walter, like many another Briton and many a Russian official, hopes for a three-way arrangement at the base of such a federation. But he intends to insure at least a two-way understanding...
...Fidel Velázquez, a sincere and able democrat, replaced exotic, eloquent, brilliant Vincente Lombardo Toledano (a school mate of the President's who still calls him by his first name) as secretary of Mexico's most powerful trade-union alliance (the C.T.M.). Under Velázquez the C.T.M. has been purged of Lombardo's Stalinist influence...
...declined. In Argentina, in 1916, the remarkable Irigoyen became President without the support of either of the two big Buenos Aires newspapers, La Prensa and La Nación. In 1929 only one national daily newspaper in Great Britain supported the Labor Party, but that party, aided by the trade-union press, won more seats in the House of Commons than any other. In 1936, newspapers with 60% to 70% of U.S. circulation were for Alf Landon, who got 36.4% of the votes. In 1939 FORTUNE published a survey showing that press news, which people were used to, was popularly...
Albert Guigui arrived half-starved from France. To the Fighting French in London, he brought assurance of the support of the once-powerful French trade-union movement. When he met the London press, he looked like an unkind caricature of Charlie Chaplin...