Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party dedicated to violent overthrow of the Government, a charge first tested by the Government when Claude Lightfoot was convicted in Chicago last month, and released in $5,000 bail. The five were: Eugene Dennis, 50, former general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party; John Gates, 42, former Daily Worker editor; John B. Williamson. 52, former party labor secretary; Jacob A. Stachel, 55, former educational director; Carl Winter, 48, former Michigan state chairman...
...factory worker's home in Osaka or the farmer's on Kyushu will be smaller and meaner, but it too will have half a dozen or more prints to be hung, one at a time, and contemplated according to the seasons. Each object, each gesture gives off a melancholy beauty inimitably Japanese. All is so precisely arranged that a wisp of dried fern or a few swirls of gravel in a garden may seem more overpowering than an Alpine view; a slightly disarranged bamboo blind can suggest chaos...
Like public officials everywhere, New York's new Governor W. Averell Harriman likes to hold informal, off-the-record meetings with reporters. But unlike most state governors, Harriman had a special press problem: Albany Correspondent Michael Singer of Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker. Last week Harriman's press secretary, Charles Van Devander, barred Singer and all other Worker reporters from Harriman's off-the-record conferences (but not from regular press conferences...
Cause of the ban: Harriman's reluctance "to talk as freely with other Albany correspondents in the presence of a representative of the Daily Worker...
Eric Hoffer is a pink-faced, hornyhanded San Francisco dock worker who pays his dues to Harry Bridges' longshoremen's union and preaches self-reliance more stalwartly than Emerson. He gets up at 4:45 in the morning and spends his days working on the piers of San Francisco's Embarcadero. Evenings he spends in his room in a shabby McAllister Street lodging-house, bent over a plank desk, writing...