Word: unionist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sydney, Nova Scotia, which comes closer to being Canada's Pittsburgh than any other Dominion city, newsmen asked a unionist to explain Canada's labor peace. George Regunnis McNeil, president of a 5,000-man steelworkers union, answered: "The whole thing in a nutshell is that American labor was organized on a national scale to a point where it could strike for what it wanted. ... In Canada strikes pop up here & there, but there is no national cooperation...
...quest for a Premier to succeed conservative Admiral Petros Voulgaris was over. In his Athens Palace last week black-bearded, black-robed Archbishop Damaskinos gladly divested himself of his stopgap function as Premier and swore in a new man: slightly-left-of-center Panayotis Kanellopoulos, leader of the National Unionist Party...
...this the unions (A.F. of L. Teamsters and an independent truck-drivers' union) replied: there is no trouble other than the independents' negotiations for a 21% increase. Snorted one unionist: "We don't know why Keeshin quit but it sure as hell had nothing to do with us. It's a phony...
...Home Office Minister James Chuter Ede, 62. Wiry, spare, a former schoolteacher and teachers' unionist, Minister Ede has the Cabinet's general utility...
Died. John ("Honest Jack") Curtin, 60, Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia, policeman's son, onetime printer's devil, revolutionary socialist, trade unionist, journalist and political orator, who marshaled Australia's strength to stand off the Jap, and converted it (in co-operation with his good friend General Douglas MacArthur) into the Pacific war's first Allied bastion; of a heart ailment, in Canberra, Australia. Quiet but forceful, austere but approachable, Curtin was described by Winston Churchill as a " commanding, competent and wholehearted leader...