Word: unionists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Czechoslovakia, onetime (1948-53) Prime Minister, gaunt old wheelhorse of the Czech Communist Party, and one of the architects of the 1948 bloodless coup that smashed Czech democracy and imposed Red rule; of a heart attack; in Prague. Stonecutter by training, Zapotocky was a longtime trade unionist and Parliamentary Deputy (1920-38, 1945-48), tenaciously survived jail terms. Nazi concentration camps and de-stalinization purges, but, for all his rise to power, remained in the shadows-primarily a backstage figure...
...identity. The Herald (of Caernarvon, Wales) proudly claimed him as a Welshman. The Herald (of New York City) declared that he was born in Missouri. Stanley had no wish to confess his Welsh illegitimacy, but even less to tell the world that he was a Confederate soldier turned Unionist and a deserter from the Navy to boot. He made Britain his base, left others to fight out the problem...
...exulted New York Unionist Peter J. McGuire, who originated the idea of Labor Day in 1894 on the joyous occasion of the first U.S. legal holiday honoring the workingman. During the next six decades, U.S. labor grew mighty beyond Carpenter McGuire's wildest dreams. But this week there is little reason to shout hosannas. Instead, at the time of Labor Day, 1957, organized labor is disturbed by its recent past, perplexed by its present, taking anxious stock of its future...
Away from the Desk. No Marble Arch leftist, Frank Cousins is a solid and pragmatic unionist, convinced that his assignment is not to balance Britain's economy, but to fight for a better deal for his members. Catapulted into the key job of general secretary of Britain's biggest union 21 months ago by the sudden successive deaths of two oldtime platform stalwarts, Cousins is now shooting for national union leadership, a role that has not been filled since his old boss and idol, the late Ernest Bevin, built the T.W.U. and went on to become Labor...
...ownership of 23% of the stock of General Motors constitutes an illegal monopoly, the Supreme Court stretched the Clayton Antitrust Act so far that even Government trustbusters gasped. In ordering that specific FBI reports be turned directly over to the defense in a new trial for Unionist Clinton Jencks, who had been convicted of falsely swearing that he was not a Communist, the Supreme Court happily surprised the defense and shocked the Government...