Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worker With Long, Coughlin...
...Manhattan, some 30,000 marchers (the Daily Worker claimed 80,000) paraded for six hours. Banners shouted: "The Truman Way Is Not the U.N. Way" -"Buy Only Union-Made Bread." At Union Square, a crowd of 10,000 listened to shrill speeches, lustily sang Solidarity Forever...
...business, preferences ideological and national give way to one of the most remarkable assortments of reading matter available anywhere: Daily Worker, Irish World, Turf Flash, plus language sheet and pulp (over 600 in toto) mingle on the shelves unembarrassed while Felix looks down with a benign tolerance. "It's no matter if a man buy something," he reasons, "he like to see what it's all about." What does dismay him is the wicked popularity of sex trash. When men are buying that which is portable cover-out, it will likely be current bestsellers Life and Look--new faces since...
...increased production cannot be absorbed if wages do not keep step with prices. This gap between the two will be widened if labor's power is destroyed, for who is going to protect the worker's wage when his union is made powerless? This union-killing policy will lead us only to another depression. After World War 1 the unions were weakened; prices and profits seared, but wages lagged. Buying fell off, men lost their jobs and we faced the great depression...
Words gushed out from all directions; though the word everyone was waiting to hear-that Princess Elizabeth was formally engaged to ex-Prince Philip of Greece -was not spoken. Prime Minister Attlee cabled: "Simple dignity . . . wise understanding . . . have endeared you to all classes. . . ." London's Daily Worker sneeringly recalled "her only recorded political pronouncement" (made when she was seven): "that . . . she would have a law passed granting holidays for horses...