Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee moved on to Lewis' wage demand. Like a man begging humbly for guidance, Lewis told them he was in a dilemma. His men were now underground 53 hours, got paid for only the 42 they spent at the coal facing. But recently a New Orleans court, in a case involving iron miners, had ruled that workers must be paid on a "portal-to-portal" basis...
...Balkan woods held their first anemones. Peasants spanned their plows, knowing that guns sow no seeds but that the men of war must eat. In Czechoslovakia eleven underground workers were executed. In Yugoslavia there were reports of 30,000 war-orphaned children roaming, singly and in packs, over the countryside, starving, dying, turning into fierce hooligans...
...killing of Hitler's Hangman Reinhard Heydrich by the Czecho-Slovakian underground is the springboard from which Hangmen's characters take their dives. These include a shrewd Gestapo inspector (Alexander Granach) who makes it very tough for Prague's patriotic citizens to hide Heydrich's killer, one Dr. Svoboda (Brian Donlevy); a venerable professor (Walter Brennan) who gives his life to thwart the dastardly inspector; the professor's pretty daughter (Anna Lee) who gives her reputation-to throw the inspector off the scent, she lets herself be discovered in Dr. Svoboda's bedroom...
...morning during the worst of the blitz BBC's Gilliam parked a sound truck near a London shelter to record the comments of East Enders emerging after eight hours underground. A cocky cockney woman grabbed the microphone and said: "If 'itler thinks 'e can win this war by bombin' women and children, 'e's fahnd a big mistyke, that's all. Because we can tyke it, we can tyke it." According to Gilliam, the cockney woman's use of the phrase was the hit, became the popular answer to the blitz...
...rumble of gunfire was heard in Switzerland. The Fighting French, in contact with French underground workers, reported 500 Germans killed throughout France last week. Saboteurs blew up a troop train near Dijon, killed 250. In Lyon a German detachment was ambushed and scattered with hand grenades. Bombs killed 23 Nazi officers at a Lille cafe. For the fifth time since 1941, an unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate the arch-collaborationist Marcel...