Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surrender of the Pie Cards. Thus Murray brought to an end eleven years of a Communist campaign to wiggle into and capture his C.I.O. The overwhelmingly right-wing delegates voted down the line with Murray. They were mostly "pie card" unionists (men & women on union payrolls), not labor's rank & file. They were well disciplined. With a loud aye, in effect they surrendered their old constitutional authority as a convention and gave Murray and his executive board virtually absolute power over 39 C.I.O. unions-the power to 1) bar Communists from sitting on the executive board, 2) expel...
There was little to be done. Fifty-four of the 55 men, women & children on the DC-4-among them famed Cartoonist Helen Hokinson (see PRESS), Congressman George J. Bates of Massachusetts-had died in the river or in a horrid welter of broken bodies, smashed baggage and torn metal on shore. One woman lived long enough to die in a hospital. It was the biggest death toll in U.S. airline history...
Last week, in a location at Krugersdorp, a mining town 20 miles from Johannesburg, rumor spread that the pass system would be extended to black women. When a native speaker excitedly called for a strike, smoldering racial resentment burst into flame. Before dawn, picket lines armed with clubs gathered at the location gate, threatening to maul any black who went to work...
Next day at a truce parley, Krugersdorp authorities explained that a new regulation for "voluntary registration of native women" did not mean that they had to carry passes. But in the parley, the aroused strikers did not sit down, in the traditional gesture of humility, when the whites addressed them. It caused one police official to complain: "I have never yet been to a meeting where the natives stand when you speak to them. It's most disrespectful...
...workers or watching them make glass. He and his employees use the familiar tu when speaking to one another, but there is no doubt who is boss. A TIME correspondent recently watched Marquot among his workers. Against the eerie background of a dozen gaping furnaces belching fire, men & women moved swiftly as fireflies carrying red-hot glass at the end of prongs, molding, blowing, cooling. There was not much room, but the workers never got in each other's way. Said the capitaliste éclairé, "It is all a matter of going to the right place...