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...called revolutionary trade-unionism." Influenced no doubt by the use of the word "unions" in America, where it has come to mean something a little different, we thought Camus might be backing down. He wasn't. In a speech titled Bread and Freedom, addressed to a meeting of Parisian workingmen in 1953, he explains: "I have recognized only two aristocracies, that of labor and that of the intelligence"--he joins the rebellion of one to the revolution of the other to the encouragement of both. Unlike most of Camus' writings this article must be read and studied carefully before...
...Wardrobe (Film Polski; Kingsley International). The camera looks out to sea. Gulls at rest, hardly a ripple. Suddenly, about 50 yards offshore, something breaks water. A fish? A submarine? No, just a wardrobe closet -large, well-made, decorated with a mirror, and carried by two dripping workingmen. Matter-of-factly, they lug the closet to the beach, jog the water out of their ears, pick the closet up again and head for the nearest city...
...anachronistic attempt to make Jesus a regular fellow, explained the denomination's director of curriculum, the Rev. Robert Koenig of Philadelphia. The flowing robes in which Christ is conventionally pictured were used only for traveling, as a sort of combination overcoat and blanket; archaeological research has shown that workingmen on the job wore short trousers and a short tunic-like shirt. To emphasize Christ's manliness, it had been decided to portray him in shorts, said Dr. Koenig, instead of in the traditional robe, which "suggests a feminine softness...
...Hoffa." Then last fortnight Monitor Maher announced he would retire because of heart trouble. Hoffa named as his successor Detroit Lawyer William E. Bufalino, president of Teamster Local 985, a jukebox operators' and car washers' union described by the Senate rackets committee as "a leech preying upon workingmen and women to provide personal aggrandizement for Mr. Bufalino and his friends...
...only are workingmen acquiring the benefits of capitalism; some are becoming capitalists themselves. To the dismay of Marxists, people are indeed taking over the means of production-by buying shares in their burgeoning industries. Wall Street's bull