Word: trade-union
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...Hitler is not defeated, the very existence of our nation and of the entire trade-union movement is imperiled. . . . Anything that interferes with production . . . whether as a result of strikes or of delays by the employers-can only help Hitler and weaken the defense of the United States." (Next day the irreverent New York Daily News commented: "The millennium arrived yesterday...
Norway. Two trade-union leaders, Viggo Hansteen and Rolf Vickstroen, refused to have their eyes bandaged, stared at the Nazi firing squad, sang the Norwegian anthem...
They have, too, not been loath to consider tinkering with the industrial structure facing them so coldly and discouragingly. This receptivity to change has characterized not only trade-union youth but college youths as well. Again unlike Germany--where university attendance was largely restricted to an upper caste, and students were accordingly conservative in their economic attitudes, American students--thanks to increasing scholarships and free education--represent many class backgrounds and are accordingly more familiar with the injustices of industrial society...
...National Government's new Minister of Labor he has so ably unmuddled his department that his hold on the popular imagination is the greatest political phenomenon of the war. Built like a beer barrel, ungrammatically eloquent Bevin wedged himself into the revised Cabinet as the apex of pyramiding trade-union strength. No mere pub gabble was the talk of Bevin as "our next Prime Minister." However, there were no signs last week that Prime Minister Churchill was missing any political busses...
...harboring "Communists," which term he defined broadly. He made himself ridiculous by cutting his own salary, then restoring the cut; by decreeing French to be Quebec's official language, then rescinding the decree. Because he used Hitler's theories of racism, Mussolini's system of corporatist trade-union laws, and Huey Long's finger-wagging, roughshod political tactics, he was called a Fascist...