Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Marseille, the Communist-dominated World-Federation of Trade Unions created an International Union of Seamen and Dockers, with Harry Bridges as its president. Bridges could not accept the new post in person. He is under indictment for perjury in San Francisco (TIME June 6), and the judge thought it unwise to let him leave the country...
...with fighting the Communist line in the W.F.T.U., quit it cold. Representatives of 36 nations met last month in Geneva to set up an anti-Communist international labor organization. The C.I.O. attended-and so did the A.F.L. The new organization will speak for some 42 million anti-Communist trade union members. It will not speak for Harry Bridges...
...south and Fort Guardia de Honor on the east. Tanks clattered through as street fighters kept up a running battle from doorway to doorway, the military bases exchanged artillery fire and government planes zoomed down to bomb tanks and strafe street fighters. The quaking government passed out arms to trade unionists and other civilian volunteers at the police station...
...Quaker plan urged that the U.S. show its good intentions by 1) promoting East-West trade and ending "economic warfare," 2) working for a unified "neutral" Germany, and 3) proposing an agreement to put all atomic bomb stockpiles under United Nations seal. If carried out, this plan "would increase the likelihood of the Soviet Union's making the desired changes on its side...
...musicals, Composer Berlin might have fused lifetime knowledge with momentary inspiration. But he, too, has apparently taken pains to be as much (and as mechanically) like himself as possible. There are several nice tunes, however, and Only for Americans has some lively lyrics which kid the Paris tourist trade...