Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blazed Meany: "Let there be no quibbling or misunderstanding. We do not recognize or concede that the Russian worker groups are trade unions. The Soviet worker groups are formally and actually instruments of the state. These so-called trade unions actively support the Soviet system of worker blacklists and deportations to labor camps that have resulted in virtual enslavement, for millions. . . . The so-called Russian trade-union movement . . . has denied to the workers of Soviet Russia the basic human freedoms that American workers hold prerequisite to a free nation...
Meanwhile radar, like many another war worker, was temporarily unemployed, while the U.S. dismantled its $3 billion radar industry. Almost as fantastic as its products was the Radiation Laboratory at Cambridge, Mass. According to M.I.T.'s President Karl Compton, it was "the biggest research organization in the history of the world." Beginning in the fall of 1940, when the nation's top physicists began to gather in a few offices lent by M.I.T., the Laboratory quietly took over a milk plant, a shoe-polish factory, an airport. Eventually, it grew to a team of 3,800, including...
Strategic Bombing. As the battle lines were drawn last week, the U.A.W. lined up its own general staff: Secretary-Treasurer George F. Addes, 35, ex-metal worker and leader of the union's far-left wing; Vice President Richard Truman Frankensteen, 38, now running for mayor of Detroit; Walter Reuther, 38, boss of the union's left-of-center faction; and President Rolland Jay Thomas, 45, balance wheel between the warring Reuther-Addes factions...
...fighting '30s, the plan was one of strategic bombing strikes in key plants. Said Reuther: ''We can send thousands of the 325,000 G.M. workers . . . on fishing trips while a few hundred close one plant." He kept the names of the plants to himself, but every G.M. worker knew that the Fisher Body plants headed the list. Without bodies, G.M. could make no cars...
...horse of the year, chestnut-colored Busher, has none of the foibles common to fillies. She outeats every colt in the stable; far from being a high-strung prima donna, she is a lazy worker who never does anything more than is asked...