Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even official Chinese sources give a consistent birthdate, though he is probably 61. Mao and Liu attended the same normal school in industrial Changsha, early became Communists. By 1919 Liu had joined the staff of a Red newspaper edited by Mao Tse-tung, and been sent to the Soviet Union to study at Moscow's Far Eastern University...
...clients. She hailed Colonel Mahdawi as "a symbol of justice." Before the verdict was announced, Mahdawi favored the audience with a history of May Day, said that labor movements paltered along in places like Britain until "the emergence of the Communist Party and the great Soviet Union, sincere friend of our democratic republic." When the applause died down, Defense Counsel Zainab popped up to say: "If my defense of the People's Court and the Iraqi people means that I am a Communist, then I have the honor to be so." Mahdawi read the verdicts amid a storm...
...antagonize the Ivory Coast, which hires its workers and is its access to the sea, Upper Volta last winter decided to pull out of Mali. So did Dahomey. Now Houphouet and the leaders of Mali share a common concern over Sekou Toure's ominous flirtation with the Soviet Union and its satellites...
...been on the job, or at least on the premises, for 26 straight hours-all but seven at overtime wages. Since there was no apparent reason for the money-wasting marathon, the business manager promptly complained to the shop representative of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union. The cold reply: "Well, he needed the money...
Against such practices, most U.S. publishers can only shrug helplessly. The pressmen's union is one of the five members of the International Allied Printing Trades Association, which also includes the International Typographical Union, the International Stereotypers' and Electrotypers' Union, the International Photo-Engravers' Union and the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders. Long and powerfully entrenched, the printing-craft unions have brought the make-work science of featherbedding to a level that is the envy of organized labor. Modern presses can roll at 60,000 papers an hour, but at shift-change time, crews frequently cut speed...