Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second Thought. Over the police radio sounded an all-cars bulletin: moments before, a gunman had held up the bank in nearby Sellersburg, was headed their way. Pulling his cruiser across the highway, Walts began a check of passing cars. Among them was one driven by Louisville Factory Worker William G. Hassett, 25. The minister, seated in the squad car, watched his friend interrogate the driver, saw a scuffle, heard shots...
Nine years ago Greece was fighting for its life against a powerful army of Communist guerrillas led by wiry, mustachioed General Markos Vafiades, a onetime tobacco worker who had seen regular service in the Greek cavalry. U.S. military aid was pouring into Athens, but Soviet arms were also pouring across the Yugoslav and Bulgarian borders to help the guerrillas. The situation had the makings of a minor war on the pattern that was to become familiar in Korea two years later. But after Tito's break with Stalin, something went wrong with the Communist army in Greece. General Markos...
...years ruthless Jimmy Hoffa had thought and fought his way from a 32?-an-hour job as a warehouse worker to become a vice president of the mighty International Brotherhood of Teamsters and head of the I.B.T.'s Central Conference, with 500,000 members of about 340 locals in a twelve-state Midwestern empire. Moreover, he was in a position of deadly challenge to the Teamsters' aging (62) International President Dave Beck. Hoffa had run up a list of arrests, e.g., for brawling in a picket line, that he smilingly admitted was "as long as your arm." Even...
...administrators of New York City's five public colleges continually straddle an uneasy dilemma. In prohibiting John Gates, Daily Worker editor from speaking at their schools, they were bowing to metropolitan New York's indignant public opinion. And now the academics are waving the liberal flag, pulling out their J.S. Mill, and causing New Yorkers, and the college administrators, to feel uncomfortable...
Final Aphorism. Fraina's career sums up the failure of early U.S. Communism and its theorizers to win the practical-minded American worker. Draper's account ends in 1923, on the eve of an era when new theorizers carried U.S. Communism almost as high as the old Smolny gang had dreamed. That was the time (subject of later volumes) when U.S. intellectuals lovingly tended the shoots that had grown from the Communist roots, ready for the fatuous aphorism of Earl Browder that "Communism is the Americanism of the twentieth century...