Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street on both sides, all the way to the White House, was a solid wall of U. S. soldiers and marines. Behind the walls massed the Washington populace, patrolled by 751 policemen, 400 firemen. Overhead roared nine flying fortresses, 42 Army pursuit ships. Drawn up from the Capitol to Union Station were more soldiers, and filling the station plaza were cavalry, 30 tanks, a battery of artillery. General Murray looked at all these preparations, for which he was responsible, with anxious, critical...
...seems to be merely a gross grab for power-terrific cost to Miner Lewis' own followers as well as to the whole U. S. The unreconstructed New York Sun for once thundered for what appeared to be a majority: "THE CALLOUS SELFISHNESS OF JOHN L. LEWIS. When a union calls a nationwide strike . . . that is bound to affect millions " . . that union must be prepared to submit a strong case to the public. . . . What sort of case has John L. Lewis? ... He is willing to see 400,000 miners quit work and millions of the public deprived of the necessaries...
Strong-man Lewis respects the strong men of the coal industry enough to fear that if they ever throw his union into reverse, they might be able to run it out of the coal fields, perhaps with the assistance of other unions which would like to replace it. A. F. of L.'s weak but ambitious Progressive Miners of America would very much like...
...official communique, dispatched to Polish envoys in European capitals, said that "independent Polish policy which never has sought anything except defense of its own interests has rejected and will reject any plan of union with one nation against another...
...even the railroads can save the co-feature, "Let Freedom Ring," for Nelson Eddy and Crew can't even reach the standards that put over "Dodge City" and "Union Pacific." Nelson Eddy is given a fine build up as the tough hombre who K. O.'s Victor McLaglen and drinks every member of the graduating class of the Harvard Law School under the table with case...