Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to serve Moscow in its coverage of the Hungarian rebellion, London's Communist Daily Worker had a rebellion on its own hands last week. Of its 30 staffers, four quit and 19 signed a petition protesting the paper's whitewash of Soviet brutality. Angriest of those who quit was its star correspondent, Peter Fryer, fresh from his assignment in Budapest itself. The others: Political Cartoonist "Gabriel" (real name: James Friell), Features Editor Malcolm MacEwan and Film Critic Patrick Goldring...
...coincidence, it was the week of the 39th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution-time for Communists everywhere to celebrate, as the New York Daily Worker put it, the day when "a new era of human society was inaugurated, one that will eventually eliminate all exploitation, war, oppression." In Soviet embassies and legations around the world huge supplies of vodka went undrunk, caviar uneaten, hypocritical greetings unspoken, and crowds demonstrated outside while un smiling Russian hosts tried to hide their embarrassment at the scarcity of guests...
...cheer denunciation of Russia. In Belgium, 5,000 university students stormed the Russian embassy in Brussels. Great Britain. Crowds marched in London streets wearing armbands of mourning. The Sadler's Wells Ballet Company called off its scheduled trip to Moscow. "Gabriel," chief political cartoonist of the London Daily Worker for 20 years, quit in disgust. The Oxford University Communist Club met and voted unanimously to dissolve. At a diplomatic party at Buckingham Palace, the Queen nodded stiffly to Soviet Ambassador Jacob Malik and moved on without a word, followed by an equally rigid and unsmiling Queen Mother and Princess...
...hours (which comprise practically the whole of every weekday except for short periods around lunch and dinner time), talking in the halls is forbidden and musical instruments cannot be played. The enforcement of these rules, however, varies with the dorms and proctors. Oftern the noise level forces the diligent worker to take refuge in the basement study room...
...Gratia Artis. In Louth. England, Office Worker Gordon Goddard was fined $14 and costs for counterfeiting, in spite of his barrister's explanation that he forged ?5 notes because they "presented a challenge to him as an artist...