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These Days Are Better. For the moment at least, Scotsmen are working again. Even on the normally turbulent Clyde-side, where strikes and upheavals resulted in the granting of then-revolutionary trade-union rights in the midst of World War I, there is now political quiet. The 100%-profits tax, making employers relatively generous with wages, leaves firebrands little besides absentee ownership and shipyard discipline to protest about. For their part, shipyard owners complain about "absenteeism"-workers occasionally take a day off just for the hell...
From Down Under there rose a cry that should have roused the fight in the entire U.S. public. It came from Australian Prime Minister John Curtin, a onetime mild-mannered trade-union journalist who in his country's greatest hour of need found words that rolled like Walt Whitman's: "We have no limits. . . . We have no qualms. . . . We will not yield a yard of our soil. . . . We fight with what we have and what we have...
Forty-eight hours later 50 French prison ers stumbled out of their cells and were riddled by firing squads. They were trade-union leaders, "Communists," men suspected of helping the British or Free French. One was not a Frenchman but an Anamese from Indo-China. But still the men who had shot Lieut. Colonel Karl Friedrich Holtz were free. Not even the promise of a sizable fortune had persuaded their friends to betray them to the Ger mans. General von Stülpnagel announced that he would shoot 50 more hostages if they were not found...
...Catholic, 56-year-old Bruening might have the backing of the Vatican as head of a post-Hitler government. His first political experience was as a Catholic trade-union executive, from which post he rose to prominence in the Catholic Center Party...
...course of history. . . . Christianity is a revolutionary religion or it is nothing. . . . The Church [must] enthuse the young as Bolshevism has enthused them in Russia and Naziism ... in Germany." One reason he considers Christian leadership particularly necessary in Britain: political power has passed largely into the hands of "unimaginative" trade-union heads who "have little interest in anything but hours and wages...