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...Passos '16 writes, "a voice as mellow as Copey's, Diogenes Steffens with Marx for a lantern going through the west looking for a good man, Socrates Steffens kept asking why not resolution? Jack Reed wanted to live in a tub and write verses; but he kept meeting bums workingmen husky guys he liked out of luck out of work why not revolution...
...William ("Father Bill") O'Connor, a labor priest who has fought for 22 years in Rock Island for what he calls "vigorous American unionism," often over the protests of Quad-City* businessmen. In the last seven years Father O'Connor has set up 30 labor schools for workingmen in his district to fight Communist infiltration, notably in the Farm Equipment Workers union, which was thrown out of the C.I.O...
...such occasions, he knew from experience, were likely to be routine and cause little excitement. As a moderate spokesman of labor in a businessman's administration, Mitchell had no prepared pyrotechnics for dazzling the delegates. And besides, he was intensely interested in learning what was on the workingmen's minds. So he decided to skip the speech and present himself as a target for all questioners...
...album of Communist propaganda, no lie is more overworked than the argument that "aggressive" American policy is dictated by Wall Street millionaires and merchant-of-death munitions makers against the will of the working class. Last week Plumber George Meany, leader of 10 million A.F.L. workingmen, told the annual convention of the New York Federation of Labor that U.S. policy was not aggressive enough...