Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said, "a young college student-a Progressive Party worker-who was severely cut across the back and arms by the agents of hate." He had heard it said in the South: "Down here to believe in the Constitution means you are automatically called a Communist...
Died. Dr. Alice Salomon, 76, pioneer social worker and suffragist (the "Jane Addams of Germany") who was exiled by the Nazis in 1937; in Manhattan...
Socialist Worker: for President, Farrell Dobbs, 41, onetime organizer for the A.F.L. Teamsters' Union; for Vice President, Dr. Grace Carlson, 41, onetime assistant professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota and the wife of a St. Paul lawyer. A Trotskyist group organized in 1928 when its leaders were expelled from the Communist Party, it is running a presidential ticket for the first time. In 1941, Dobbs, Mrs. Carlson and 16 other party members were convicted and sent to jail for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the Government. They do not really advocate such rebellion, says Mrs. Carlson...
...shipping department of Peter Keevil & Sons, Ltd., London wholesale provisioners, a worker named Jack Bryant found his cigarette lighter empty. Cleverly, he lowered a small medicine bottle on a string into the fuel tank of a company truck, pulled it out full of red gasoline, and replenished his lighter. (Britain's Labor government has decreed the red color for all gas used by commercial vehicles, for easier detection if it leaks into the black market...
...served until a real boy friend came along." Frankie was the son of a policeman who tried to toughen him up by making him go out and fight with the boys. He grew up with an abiding fear of being a sissy, sensitive, selfconscious, a good dancer, a hard worker, ashamed of his family and relentlessly honest with himself. He met Margy at a soda fountain where they both lingered because neither of them wanted to go home to their quarreling families...