Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abroad, the Red-inspired demonstration raged on raucously. MURDER, ran the headline in London's Daily Worker. Thousands of Britons roamed their capital's West End, yelling anti-American slogans...
...East European immigrants who settled in Manhattan's lower East Side, both Julius Rosenberg and his future wife Ethel Greenglass took to Communism in their adolescent years. In so doing, they rejected the Jewish faith of their parents (a sore blow to Julius' father, a garment worker who yearned for his son to be a rabbi). So ardent was 19-year-old Ethel's devotion to the cause that she began indoctrinating her 13-year-old brother David. Then she found a comrade and a beau in Julius, two years her junior and an electrical engineering student...
...German mechanic sent to Prague to service machinery: "Prague was blocked by troops, the capital was in a state of siege, factory workers were in an uproar. One worker told me in German: 'We don't care what happens to us; we are tired of the propaganda, the swindle. If we don't get our salary, we will stop working...
Citation: "Son of the industrial Midwest, who began to practice the gospel of brotherly love in the crowded playgrounds of a vast metropolis, who carried it on to the busy marts of trade and to the worker's bench ... A born leader of men, Martin Durkin understood his fellow men and he loved them...
From his first cartoon for the P-D 40 years ago (an attack on wooden railroad coaches showing a train of coffin-shaped cars rounding a bend of track) to his poignant chronicle of the Depression (a beaten, slumped worker standing in front of a soup kitchen-"One Person Out of Ten") and his savage jabs at the Republican campaign (McCarthy, Cain and Jenner waiting at the stage entrance to go on in a show called "Ike's Crusade"), Fitz has drawn with power and simplicity...