Word: unionists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little group of seven men and one woman who climbed aboard a plane early last month and set off for Moscow looked as nondescript as any lot of gawking sightseers. There was little old (69) Wilfred Burke, a colorless trade unionist whom rotation had made chairman of the Labor Party. Three others were hard-knuckled unionists: knobby Harry Earnshaw of the textile workers, big, handsome Harry Franklin of the railwaymen, shrewd, balding Sam Watson, a longtime battler of Communists in Durham's "Little Moscow" coal fields. And there was tall, leggy Dr. Edith Summerskill, onetime Minister of National Insurance...
...niggle when they had such a good thing, welcomed the travelers like long-lost brothers. They sent a special VIP plane to Helsinki to pick them up, put them up lavishly in the Sovietskaya Hotel in suites complete with pianos and radios. "Truly a place for important people," glowed Unionist Harry Franklin. Georgy Malenkov himself invited them out to a handsome country dacha, and after picking a bunch of phlox and gladioli for Dr. Summerskill, told her gallantly: "What has been wrong too often in the world of education is that men have been too impertinent and women overmodest...
After World War I, Unionist Cavert joined the Federal Council of Churches, by 1930 became its executive head. In 1950, he became head of the newly formed National Council of Churches, of which the Federal Council became a part-a vigorous collaboration of 30 churches representing a total membership of some 35.5 million. Presbyterian Cavert's delicate balance of diplomacy and decision was indispensable in the council's triumph over the formidable opposition of inertia and denominational differences. Cavert's approach: "A council of churches is not so much an attempt to create unity as to practice...
...National Union of Mineworkers is a Communist, Arthur Horner. There are three Communists on the 15-man executive of the National Union of Railwaymen. The Communists are under heavy attack from the powerful and conservative Trades Union Congress, and have lost strength in recent years. But as one railway unionist warned: "They'll always be a danger, even if there are only a dozen of them, because wherever there's a pimple, they'll scratch it into a rash." And it is not so much their numbers as their strategic placement and their high-handed...
Death of a Unionist Sir: Bully for you, for publishing...