Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regime had encountered. The government announced that all Socialist publications would be closed down this month when the Social Democratic Party "merges" with the Communist Party. At the plant of venerable Právo Lidu (People's Right), 55-year-old Social Democratic Party organ, 500 newspaper workers assembled in a protest rally. Shouts of "Strike!" went up. Social Democratic Deputy Premier Zdenek Fierlinger, who hurried to the Právo Lidu plant to try to smooth things out, was received bitterly. Said Fierlinger: "Things will be better for all of us." Cried one worker: "We Socialists helped...
...places as a young fighter. "I could always punch," he is quick to say. But the fever left him weak. Undertrained and undernourished after living on relief, he made a try at a comeback, finally quit because he could make more money ($85 a week) as a wartime shipyard worker. It took a lot of talking by glib Felix Bocchiccio, a small-time Camden promoter, to lure him back into the fight racket. Bocchiccio supplied two vital things he lacked before-management and money-and Jersey Joe began punching his way into the headlines...
...first three cases the technique was not perfected, and there was no improvement. The last three operations were too recent to test results. Of the other eight, one died; three are still in institutions; four improved enough to return home, one enough to get a job (as a farm worker...
...Years is disappointingly barren of significant comment on Lovett's many important chores. For 16 years he lived at Jane Addams' famed Hull House in Chicago, but his recollections are those of a friendly, casual onlooker instead of the devoted worker he was. He aided all sorts of liberal causes as writer, speaker and organizer, usually with more energy and enthusiasm than his petition-signing, hat-passing colleagues, but this account of his impulsive championship of the underdog reads like a genial assurance that he couldn't say no in a good cause...
Whacky. On its new children's page, Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker gave its young readers directions for making "a New Look beanie" from daddy's old felt hat. "With a row of Wallace buttons around the beanie," it exclaimed, "you'll be the best-dressed kid in school . . . Anything goes on a beanie, and the whackier the better...