Word: trade-union
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...last week the Communist Party's ragamuffin had grown in public sentiment to a full-sized martyr, and Herbert Morrison, whose minority party exists by trade-union support, had no kidney for a test of strength...
City children were drafted for farm work. Komsomol boys & girls mobilized for tree cutting to replenish the lost coal resources in the Don. Peat and refuse were burned in furnaces. The scythe and sickle reappeared in grainfields. Horses (once-scorned symbols of kulak individualism) replaced tractors. A trade-union investigator was acclaimed a national hero when he found enough rusting scrap metal to make "450 light and medium tanks...
...Daily Worker, admittedly controlled and owned by the British section of the Third International, went to work, arranged a public stock issue to pay for replacements of its blitzed presses, planned, as promised, to help Britain win the war. First issue, it announced, would appear at the national trade-union meeting...
...that face and soul, common to soldier and worker alike, that a Moscow trade-union secretary, Mme. Nikolaeva, spoke when she cried to women in the mills: "All work in the rear is being done under the banner of hatred...
Though elected by components of the now dead Popular Front, President Rios has already got tough with labor. While awaiting full powers under the Emergency Bill, he used its threat to outlaw and smash strikes, to clap strike leaders in jail, to intervene in and control trade-union elections. Among the semi-dictatorial powers the new bill grants the President is that of declaring "emergency zones" and a "state of siege." suspending constitutional guarantees and permitting the "militarization" of labor elements...