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Dave Downing is said to have enjoyed himself at the circus last Saturday night and has even better prospects in view for the future. We point with pride to our prediction of last week that the thrush of Company 3, Jim Davison, would come closer to the Manual and Memo; his recitation on S & A 15 this week startled the whole class including our rather incredulous pedagogue...
...Chicago's white-gloved Drake Hotel, around a decorously felted table, A.F. of L.'s Executive Council had conferred long and windily over taking John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers back into the fold. On the first day they listened to taciturn Lloyd A. Thrush, president of A.F. of L.'s Progressive Mine Workers,* whose specialty is a passionate hatred of John L. Lewis...
...Thrush demanded strict observance of the A.F. of L. constitution, which forbids the chartering of any union when one of the same jurisdiction is already in the Federation. But Thrush's 35,000 Progressive Miners looked pathetically unimportant beside Lewis' huge union with 600,000 duespayers...
...Thrush and everyone else knew that the real issue was John L. Lewis, manipulator of the grab-bag District 50, which raids all kinds of unions, savage enemy of Franklin Roosevelt, contemptuous underminer of A.F. of L.'s wishy-washy president William Green ("I have explored the mind of William Green and I give you my word there is nothing there"). Lewis had made it clear that he expected the U.M.W. to be taken in "as is." This would give unlimited raiding opportunities to District 50 and set a precedent for readmitting other unions that have stretched their jurisdictions...
...left was another hill, half green where grape vineyards had been planted and half yellow where wheat was planted. Up this slope Morehouse and K Company were now attacking, and we could see their red tracer bullets shooting very prettily into the green of the grape vines. Thrush! Wham! a shell with terrific velocity flew over our heads through the pass...