Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Everybody knows," said a grizzled party worker at Labor headquarters, "that Ebbw Vale will vote Labor and that Torquay will vote Tory. It's the doubtfuls like Hammersmith that'll decide the general election." The Tories felt much the same. "Labor got nearly 12 million votes in 1945," said one of them. "We got nearly 10 million. A million of the 'floating' vote in the next election could turn the tide in our favor . . . That's why Hammersmith is important...
...Restful Eyes. From the beginning, Anna Louise Strong was not quite happy with her Communist god. When she went to Russia as a relief worker for the American Friends' Service Committee, and later as a U.S. correspondent, her enthusiasm for the cause met with limited response. She tried to join the Russian Communist Party. She was refused.* Taunted a Russian comrade: "A sentimental bourgeois like...
...apparently the revolution had outgrown Mother Strong. Last week New York's Daily Worker glowingly observed that for her reporting on China, 63-year-old Anna Louise Strong really deserved the Pulitzer Prize. Four days later, the Kremlin made a curt announcement: "The notorious agent and American journalist, A. L. Strong . . . was arrested by organs of the state security on Feb. 14. Miss Strong is incriminated in espionage and subversive activities against the Soviet Union...
Last week, the Daily Worker announced that the A.Y.D. had dissolved itself. One big reason, perhaps the main one, was that A.Y.D. was finding it too tough to get new members, or even to hold on to old ones. It had shrunk to a handful of active chapters. There was nothing left to do but change names again. Soon, as A.Y.D. promised, U.S. colleges would discover a new "Marxist youth organization" on their campuses, "carrying forward A.Y.D.'s . . . militant activity in the interests of young people." But this time it might be harder: Communist fronts no longer seemed...
Sears also gave some case histories of how the fund pays off. A clerical worker who had deposited $4,798 in the fund, over 33 years, retired last year at 60 and withdrew $70,591. A merchandiser, who had deposited $7,530, withdrew $134,423 in cash and stock...