Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...underwear by roughly quashing an attempt to have him and other officers investigated on charges that there were Communists in the union's high places. Waiter Joe Doyle* of the S.S. Ancon, proponent of the resolution, asked for a trial board of outsiders, with one Daily Worker Red on it. No support came from the floor. From the chair: "This resolution is designed for one purpose-to smash the N.M.U." Doyle replied that its sole purpose was to get to the bottom of charges that the union "is filled up with Commies." Amidst jeering and booing, Waiter Doyle first...
...Education Commissioner John W. Studebaker: "We shall in 1942 probably require more than 5,000,000 additional new [defense] workers. . . . Where will America get [them]? . . . [By] recruiting and training . . . many more women for defense jobs. . . . Another source of manpower which must increasingly be used is the Negro worker. . . . First things must come first . . . the first job this nation has to do is to put a period to the peril which arises 'from ruthless men of force who care nothing for civil liberties and who mock at all appeals to humanity...
...last week that the Communist Party Line reacted to the Russo-German war by curling up like a fishhook to head in the opposite direction (see p. 13), the Communist press swept around a hairpin turn to take the same course. To the guffaws of capitalist reporters the Daily Worker's lead editorial, appearing on the morning Hitler invaded Russia, declared...
Next day the Worker hastily editorialized...
Down with the criminal war of German fascism against the Soviet Union! For full support and cooperation with the Soviet Union in its struggle against Hitlerism! By week's end the Worker chucked away its olive branch, shut off its no-war dirge and strode out-helmeted, booted and spurred. Gone, all gone, were the whoops against New Deal-tycoon collusion, the sneers at "Mamma" Roosevelt, the ballyhoo for the forthcoming American Youth Congress in Philadelphia as a red-hot peace rally. The Worker even referred to elegant, wing-collared, Groton-schooled Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles...