Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Party members in mass organizations [trade unions, farm and fraternal organizations, etc.] shall work jointly in a comradely manner to promote and strengthen the given organization. It shall be the duty of Party members ... to explain the mass policies of the Party and the principles of Socialism, to endeavor to win support for them, and they shall abide by the democratic decisions of the mass organizations...
...fight dictatorship if we go arm-in-arm with Stalin?" rhetorically asked American Federation of Labor Delegate Matthew Woll last week in a debate at Oslo, Norway. Occasion: meeting of the general council of the International Federation of Trade Unions (Iftu). Issue at stake; proposed merger of the 22,500,000 Russian trade unionists with the 17,000,000 Iftu members (mostly from democratic countries), which would give the U. S. S. R. the loudest voice in International Labor...
...heated argument, the council voted 14-to-7 to terminate negotiations for a Russian merger. Leader of the fight against Russian admittance was British Delegate Sir Walter Citrine, president of Iftu's executive. In the minority were delegates from Leftist Spain. Mexico and France. Most disappointed was French Trade Union Leader Léon Jouhaux, who last November traveled to Moscow, there negotiated with Soviet Labor Leader Solomon Lozovsky the conditions under which Soviet workers would enter the Iftu...
...Glueck's finds indicate that the busy inhabitants of Solomon's port, besides carrying on sea trade, ship-building and fishing, smelted copper and manufactured such copper implements as spearheads, fishhooks, nails. Some of the flues in the ancient smelter are still intact, and the north wind causes a strong draft through them. Dr. Glueck believes the necessity for such a natural draft was the reason this site was chosen for smelting...
...seemed to the diggers that the storied visit of the Queen of Sheba may have been motivated by fear that Solomon's new sea trade would interfere with her caravan commerce, and her consequent desire to make a deal...