Word: unionistic
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...WORK LIKE HELL!" was presently adopted by Trade Unionist Ernest Bevin as the slogan of the Ministry of Labor and he soon rivaled Socialist Morrison with a ringing radio declaration: "Machine tools and instruments of production are now more valuable than gold. . . . I want another [sixth] column in Britain-a National Service Column resolved to win, and to win quickly! . . . It will deal drastically with anyone who seeks to hinder us in our crusade...
...asked Sir John warmly, "should we suppose that the willing exertions of our people, if properly roused and directed, will produce less recruits- than if we attempted to apply a cast-iron formula to compel our people to lend? Nobody is better qualified than the British trade unionist to know what is at stake, for a victory of Hitler means the end of trade unionism. Nobody has better reason than we who enjoy freedom to be willing to pay the full price necessary to preserve...
Only man in the plant who did not own a share was Gus Geiges, whom they hired as general manager. Gus Geiges was an old unionist, ex-president of the C. I. O. American Federation of Hosiery Workers. All his 500 worker-owners were A. F. H. W. members. Last November they started operating...
Late in 1933 a powerful, cantankerous Chicago unionist named Michael J. ("Umbrella Mike") Boyle took umbrage at the management of the swank Edgewater Beach Hotel. Some said (and Mike Boyle denied) that the hotel had refused to let him live there; others, that a dispute over recognition of his electrical union got his dander up. Tough "Umbrella Mike"*knows much about the dark & bloody side of Chicago unionism, twice went to jail (for contempt of court, conspiracy to restrain trade). He was also tough enough to call out Edgewater Beach electricians, declare a strike. Allied with the electricians were waiters...
...Ravenel was a goodhearted, long-winded, affable Unionist who predicted that the Southerners would fight like jackasses and heroes. Southerners, said he, were an honor to the fortitude, but an insult to the intelligence, of the human race. Why, sir, they would become an example in history of much that was great and of everything that was wrongheaded. Father and daughter argued without listening to each other. He said that once when he got hit on the head, after returning to New Orleans, he knew instantly he was in the South, like the shipwrecked sailor who knew...