Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famine. Many store shelves in Moscow were again reported empty. Travelers from the provinces said that food was scarce even in some rich agricultural sections. Soviet newspapers had recently criticized the widespread neglect of agricultural machinery, and failure to provide proper fuel for tractors, binders, harvesting machines. The Soviet Union's last famine, in 1933, was caused by peasant opposition to Dictator Stalin's collectivization program. The present agricultural difficulties seem to be caused: 1) by the chaotic conditions in the much-purged Commissariat of Agriculture; 2) by an attempt to impose on recalcitrant farmers a crop-alternating...
Meanwhile, there were signs last week that the Soviet Union's rulers at last realized that conditions in the Commissariat of Agriculture had become dangerous. I. A. Benediktov, formerly a Vice Commissar, was named as the new Commissar, equipped with the full powers to "coordinate...
...merely the usual legal attack on Big Business management, the milk-trust charges encompassed union activities and ran the gamut from price-fixing to tales of arson, flogging and stench bombings. Chicago was picked as the locale for the trial because these factors made it represent "in extreme form" what the Department of Justice terms a nationwide milk "situation...
...National Guard, now a first-rate fighting force, should not be employed for police duty in labor disputes. This restriction would speed the recruiting of union members and the army needs skilled mechanics, trained workmen...
...Chittick, Waverley, assistant in psychiatry; Thomas Colver, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, research fellow in medicine; Kenneth M. A. Perry, London, research fellow in medicine; Rulon W. Rawson, Chicago, Illinois, research fellow in medicine and assistant physician to the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital; Francis R. Dieuaide, Peiping Union Medical College, China, research associate in biological chemistry; Philip F. Partington, East Orange, New Jersey, research fellow in medicine...