Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia, trade unionism was first permitted as a concession after the abortive revolution of 1905, and enrolled members grew to exceed 200,000 under Nicholas II. During the War most unions in Russia were extinguished, but with the revolution of 1917, membership in a trade union was made compulsory by Lenin and 1,500,000 Russians were soon enrolled, with the State deducting union dues from their pay. In 1921 this policy was reversed, and Lenin made trade union membership voluntary. In the early Five-Year Plan period, Russian trade union officials were still attempting to bargain collectively with...
...public trial of Tomsky in the familiar Moscow style would have split proletarian opinion irretrievably, and his suicide smoothed the ground upon which was negotiated in six days last week the affiliation with Iftu of the Soviet Trade Unions...
...leading negotiator for Moscow with Amsterdam was Solomon Lozovzky, a skyrocketing new favorite of Dictator Stalin. Few weeks ago he was a little known Soviet Trade Union official. Last week he was suddenly nominated for membership in the all-powerful Central Committee of the Communist Party and to become Leader of the Profintern. The Profintern is the Red International of Labor Unions, created in 1921 by the Comintern of Moscow, whose business is to make "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
...years ago Soviet propaganda drilled into Russian workers that Iftu and its leaders were proletarian poltroons, stooges of Capitalism. Such Iftu affiliates as the American Federation of Labor and the British Trades Union Congress replied by publicly abhorring Russian trade unionism as "Red" and its leaders as stooges of Stalin. The pact signed in Moscow last week ended this quarrel and made the International Federation of Trade Unions an organization of 23,000,000 Soviet affiliates and 17,000,000 other affiliates-with all that that implies. Big Leon Jouhaux seemed slated to return to Paris with increased kudos...
...Heard President Roosevelt - whose New Deal is being approached by the Cabinet with an eye to arranging a trade treaty whose benefits to Britain are political rather than commercial (TIME, Nov. 29)-attacked by Conservative Robert John Graham Boothby, onetime Parliamentary Private Secretary to Winston Churchill when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer...