Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Thuringian workers were being egged on to revolt against the Weimar Republic in 1923, Walter Ulbricht was one of two Reds who doomed them by persuading Moscow that they needed no arms, "because every Thuringian worker already has a rifle behind his stove." When untrue rumors began to drift to Moscow in the '20s about the intelligentsia, which had assumed command of the German party, Zinoviev, the boss of the Comintern, went to the files, found that all the adverse reports had been signed by Comrade Ulbricht. When Moscow decided in 1925 that the German party must...
...giving in a brief and attractive way news about political and economic events in the U.S. and abroad . . . Copies of TIME are highly valued behind the Iron Curtain. Single copies are sold for as much as 25 marks in East German Currency. That means half the amount a common worker earns a week. A man living in free America can hardly imagine what it means to be cut off from information. He will never really understand the feeling growing in a man doomed to read the Communist-censored papers day by day. year by year...
...brought home to No. 10 during his wife's absence. Said Christie, scratching his head and licking his lips: "Well, I strangled her. I seem to remember it ... I think I can say firmly that I did." Victim No. 2 was Muriel Eady, radio factory worker, met in 1944 and brought home to No. 10. "I think I must have strangled...
Perhaps one out of every ten in the U.S. population carries a few amoebae in his bowels for most of his life, and they never bother him. So doctors did not think it significant when Harry J. Myer, 51, a Singer worker from Grovertown, who died last November of a "liver abscess," was found to have had amoebiasis. But then technicians of the South Bend Medical Foundation, who make the pathology tests for most of the city's doctors, began to find amoeba in more and more stool samples. They reported this to Health Officer F. R. Nicholas Carter...
...still powerful, but membership in C.G.I.L. has dropped from 82% to 65% since 1949. Though this still large membership in the Communist union worries U.S. military men, it does not worry Valletta. The big C.G.I.L. membership, he points out, does not mean that all are Communists, but merely that workers have chosen the largest, oldest and strongest union in Italy. Says Valletta: "If I were a worker, it's the one I would belong to myself...