Word: unionist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many a unionist wondered if the editorial might not have slipped into the Teamster without the approval of Teamster President Daniel J. ("Uncle Dan") Tobin, 70, a rough, tough unioneer who dates back to Sam Gompers. (The monthly Teamster usually carries half a dozen articles signed by Uncle Dan.) A correspondent telephoned Tobin, asked about the editorial's authorship. Said Tobin: "Wait till I see it." There was a pause while he did, then: "Sure, I wrote it; my name...
...prospective Prime Minister, the Labor Party picked amiable, colorless Clement Attlee, since a choice between strong-arm trade unionist Ernest Bevin and smart-policy exponent Herbert Morrison might split the Party. Ernest Bevin was tipped as prospective Foreign Secretary. Promptly he expounded Labor's foreign policy...
TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth saw it at Hoechst, an industrial town near Frankfort. Four men-a Communist, a trade-unionist, two Social Democrats-had scrapped their pre-Hitler political differences and were working as auxiliary police for the U.S. army...
...factory worker's son and a militant trade unionist, Dimitroff began making international incidents in the early 1920s. En route to the second Comintern Congress in Moscow, he was picked up in Rumania as a spy, was rescued from liquidation by Russian intervention. In 1923 he led Bulgaria's abortive Communist revolt, barely escaped with his life across the Yugoslav border...
...Robert Lacoste, veteran trade unionist and Minister of Industrial Production in General de Gaulle's Government, expounded a revolutionary dogma for France's economy...