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...before the promised new era was well launched in Europe, musical modernism was in trouble with the dictators, who objected to it as: 1) extreme individualism, 2) an unsettling symptom of unrest. In 1936 Soviet Russia joined the procession, banning as "leftist" the works of Dmitri Shostakovich, and declaring that the "formalistic ideas" of modernistic music were "founded on bourgeois musical conceptions" (TIME...
That little opportunity exists for outward manifestations of unrest was evident from the fact that His Imperial Majesty keeps a tight rein on the army, maintains a force of 20,000 of his best-clothed, best-fed, best-paid soldiers in Teheran, This week the stern dictator's men were making the rounds of households along the route of the contemplated state drive of His Imperial Majesty, warning citizens to display flags, hang out banners...
Labor Crisis: Something had to be done to stave off trouble after the expiration on March 1 of some 7,000 labor contracts, affecting workers in every part of France. Ugly signs of labor unrest have been appearing for several months, and last week there were grounds to fear another wave of sit-down strikes and stand-up riots such as burst forth under Socialist Premier Léon Blum (TIME, June 15, 1936), today Vice-Premier...
Though he has blamed the shipowners as much as the seamen for the current maritime unrest, Mr. Kennedy also blames Frances Perkins. His opinions of the Secretary of Labor are hardly printable. And with his Irish up he marched before the Copeland Committee last week to rebut Mrs. Perkins' previous testimony that the time was not ripe for special maritime labor legislation (see p. 13). Without mentioning the Secretary by name, Mr. Kennedy observed sarcastically: "I submit that if the maritime industry is not 'ripe' for conciliation and mediation of its labor disputes, then it is overripe...
...reality Premier Duplessis is being used by these elements of reaction in order to put the quietus upon trade union activity, upon the growing unrest caused by the swelling of the ranks of the unemployed. Hence Duplessis' refusal to cooperate with the Dominion goverment upon a scheme of legislation for Unemployment Insurance...