Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor-union curbs being considered by the House Education and Labor Committee, thundered Lewis, are nothing more than a plot to oppress the poor laboring man: North Carolina Representative Graham Barden's reform bill is "88 pages of misery," and the mild Kennedy reform bill (TIME, May 4) is "66 pages of misery that is not quite so strong." As for Senator John McClellan's investigation of labor-management racketeering, it marked "a re-establishment of the principle of the Star Chamber of the Tudor and Stuart kings, with a slight touch of the Spanish Inquisition...
...rejoined the A.F.L., left it ("TheA.F.L. has no head; its neck just growed and haired over"). There were flashes of the old defiant Lewis who had traded hot words with Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough and accepted historic contempt fines of $2,130,000 against his United Mine Workers union and himself, the same old thunderer who had led his coal miners from economic prostration in the Depression to a $24.25 daily basic wage and the fattest welfare benefits in labor history (with membership down from a high point of 600,000 in the late...
These are the reasons advanced by the Women's Education Association for the union of the Annex and the University and they are certainly sound and important. It would be difficult to state just how such a union would be viewed by undergraduates. The idea of a co-educational college like those of the West probably first comes to mind, but such a change in the college would probably not happen...
...serves as President and main financial supporter of The Alliance, Inc., a firm specializing in such publications as "Red Intrigue and Race Turmoil," "Color, Communism, and Common Sense," and "Manual for American Action"--the last written by Roosevelt himself. In addition, at least two New England newspapers--Manchester's Union-Leader and New Bedford's Standard-Times--appear especially sympathetic to Veritas publicity...
...Toed the communist line in the 30's as a champion of Negro rights hailing the Soviet Union's "leadership" in this cause, advocating "class struggle," attacking American education as slanted to back the "dominant capitalistic order," and writing for a magazine that prominently advocated "a social upheaval that will plow up our present institutions to their very roots and substitute a socialist order for the present capitalist imperialist order...