Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passage money and streaked for Petrograd. In this city (the Tsarist capital which is now Leningrad) at the time of the abortive Russian revolution of 1905, Trotsky had briefly figured as the president of the historic "First Soviet." A soviet is merely any representative group or council of workmen who have decided to call themselves a soviet...
Behind General Martin ranged burly John L. Lewis with his 1,400,000 organized workmen of the C. I. O. unions, his surging ambition to become leader of millions more in the automobile, steel, rubber, textile and other mass industries...
Three days later violence flared up in Governor Murphy's State. In Flint's Chevrolet assembly plant, non-union workmen faced with loss of their jobs because of the strike listened resentfully to the voice of a U. A. W. organizer blaring from a loudspeaker at union headquarters across the street. As shifts were changing someone smashed the amplifier, caused a general scuffle. Heads were banged and two U. A. W. men landed in jail. That night 200 unionists demonstrated in front of the lockup, were routed by tear gas. Again in Flint rival groups clashed in front...
...significance of Fascism as a movement Conservative in the British sense. The claim of Italian social workers that "nowhere in the world is labor so well-protected as in Italy under the Fascist regime" is being comfortably noised this week in England. The Fascist maternity aid, child-training centres, workmen's sport fields and theatres, public works such as motor roads, reclamation of marsh lands, building of new cities, construction of transatlantic liners, excavations of noble Roman ruins, and colonization of Ethiopia are all positive achievements. The negative catcalls of Communists in the Daily Worker most certainly will...
...butt of more violent criticism, more half-baked humor than any Manhattan Statue since the erection of Frederick MacMonnies' Civic Virtue. Last week artisans at the Roman Bronze Works were putting finishing touches on one of the biggest jobs of bronze casting the company has ever handled, and workmen in Rockefeller Center were chopping holes in the Fifth Avenue pavement for a statue of Atlas destined to distract public attention from Prometheus for many weeks to come...