Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provocation was the interruption of five of twelve U.S.-owned transatlantic cables-four owned by Western Union, the fifth by American Telephone and Telegraph Co.-in the short period of five days. All the interruptions, or cuts, occurred in about the same spot, in the icy seas some 195 miles northeast of St. John's, Newfoundland. Around that spot, Navy patrols reported, only one ship was operating: the Russian fishing trawler Novorossisk...
Sentenced last week by a federal court in Tacoma, Wash, on six counts of income tax evasion: Dave Beck, 64, longtime Teamsters Union president, nudged-from office by Jimmy Hoffa in 1957, and in trouble with the law ever since. Sentence: five years' imprisonment and $60,000 fine, plus $10,961.52 in court costs. Said U.S. District Judge George H. Boldt in a lecture from the bench: "Mr. Beck plundered his union, his intimate associates, and, in some instances, his personal friends-most of whom quite readily would have given him anything he asked...
...immediate result of our visit to the Soviet Union," Macmillan continued, "may be said not to have been very great...
MOSCOW--The Soviet Union Thursday denounced the U.S. detention of a Soviet fishing trawler off New Foundland as a provocative...
Member clubs of the committee include the U.N. Council, World Federalists, Committee to Study Disarmament, Liberal Union, Freedom Council, and Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. Representatives from the six organizations will meet bi-weekly to co-ordinate plans for speakers and to discuss common problems...