Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three months ago if an ordinary Italian citizen had been asked how soon the Italian government would sign a trade treaty with Soviet Russia, how soon Italian workmen would build ships for the Bolsheviks, the citizen would have replied that only a miracle could bring such things to pass. Undying opposition to Communism and all its manifestations is the very cornerstone of Fascism...
...Weehawken, N. J., John Moyer, Negro, went into a workmen's outhouse, lit a cigaret, dropped the match down the sewer. Benzine in the sewer exploded,, leaped out and seared John Moyer, ignited grass in the surrounding field. Racing through the sewer the flame blasted the covers off 156 Weehawken manholes, causing residents to scurry to their cellars. Firemen were summoned to put out a blaze on an Erie R. R. freight loading platform, started by the burning grass. A chicken crate factory started burning down; two firefighters were overcome. A paper factory also caught fire. Match-thrower Moyer...
Loudest Voice. Matthew Woll, third vice president of the American Federation of Labor, raised the loudest voice in favor of an embargo against all Soviet goods. Claiming to represent 500,000 workmen as the head of the Wage Earners Protective Association, he talked of invoking a similar embargo against convict-made goods from Fascist Italy. His language became so intemperate that William Green, president of the A. F. of L., was forced to disavow him as a spokesman for that organization...
...until its formal dissolution last week. Friedrich Baltrusch and Ernst Lemeer, Protestant Trade Unions leaders, were listed among the new party's leaders. Observers saw in this an attempt to bring into the Staatspartei the Protestant workers of Germany as the German Centrist party absorbed German Catholic workmen...
...rain." explained the Chinese shipmaster. "Workmen won't work in the rain without umbrellas, and the Cantonese soldiers have mobilized all our umbrellas." The U. S. commandant did not argue...