Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 120 Bombings. Within minutes of the blast, fire crackled around highly volatile chemicals. Survivors staggered out of buildings from which black smoke billowed. They could hear the moans of those trapped inside. But there was no panic, no screaming. To the workers this was an old, familiar story. In 1921, more than 80% of the northern third of the vast plant at Oppau, three miles northwest of Ludwigshafen, had gone up in one terrible roar that took 565 lives. Just five years-minus one day-before this week's explosion, a similar blast had taken 73 lives. During...
Next day 34-year-old John Gates, editor of the Daily Worker, surrendered in Manhattan. Carl Winter, chairman of the C.P.'s Michigan committee, was picked up in Detroit. Russian-born Irving Potash, chairman of the New York Joint Board of the C.I.O.'s Fur & Leather Workers Union, hustled back from vacation to turn himself in. Still unaccounted for this week: Gilbert Green, the party's leader in Illinois; Robert Thompson, New York State C.P. chairman; Gus Hall, leader of the party's Ohio wing...
...average Mexican worker makes 1 peso 25 centavos an hour. At that rate, at pre-devaluation prices, he had to work ten hours to buy lunch for a family of five, 72 hours to pay an average rent in the center of the city, 160 hours to buy a suit of clothes...
Fogo, a Halifax lawyer, Nova Scotia-born-&-bred, is a man without political ambitions for himself, a reliable worker behind the scenes, whose political gift is to stop bootless quarreling and secure quiet settlements. Liberals expect him to make a good convention co-chairman (French-Canadian cochairman, Joseph Blanchette). But since he was only 23 when the last Liberal convention was held, he has a bit to learn about the procedure...
...last the Communist New York Daily Worker's Rob F. Hall went to the rescue by asking Wallace to discuss "progressive capitalism." After that, wrote Pegler, "the incident dissolved in a cloud of Oriental incense and a faint, distant tinkle of Chinese gongs...