Word: unionistic
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...they had refused, chances were that the 29 mills where they work would close down. Northern hosiery manufacturers have been hard hit by competition from the South's predominantly nonunion mills. With the wage cut, the northern companies are hopeful that they can compete again. Said one unionist: "We don't like this. But it is a matter of survival for the northern unionized mills...
...Party. Because the Communists control the transportation, coal, and steel workers' unions, he thinks their power far exceeds party membership. Like France and Italy, Australia has had its share of Communist-led strikes, which have paralyzed the national economy. Tipping traces Communist power to public apathy. "The average trade unionist would rather go to a horse race than a union election meeting, and so the Reds can slip their men in top union positions...
Adenauer has wisely entrusted his embryonic defense ministry to a sober, militarism-proof trade-unionist, Theodor Blank. Blank's top experts, Generals Adolf Heusinger and Hans Speidel, have anti-Nazi records, though they also had brilliant military careers...
...struggle along as best they could through Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain's expert juggling of "essence" and "complexus," and Professor Florovsky's description of theology as "apophatic." In stressing a plea for a new social welfare system of economics somewhere between laissez faire capitalism and Communism, Unionist Reuther made his bow to religion by calling upon it to "provide man with a positive, fighting faith that will enable him to translate moral and ethical values into basic economic and political decisions." President Louis Finkelstein of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America appealed for a permanent commission...
...same thing: Why did I come here? Said a heavy-machinery expert from Hamburg: "I want to know why a Christian of one faith feels like a stranger in the church of another. If there is but one God, why must we worship Him in different ways?" A trade unionist from Essen asked whether "the churches can do anything to help bridge the gap between employer and employee." A shutter designer from the Rolleiflex factory in Braunschweig asked: "Why must so many community pastors be stuffy and dull? I hope to find here a spark of Christianity that...