Word: unionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...palaver was beginning to make some of the steelworkers a little restive. At one U.S. steel subsidiary and two small independent plants, 5,300 workers walked out on wildcat strikes. Explained one local unionist: "We've built the boys up and they're ready to go. You just can't keep putting the cork back in the bottle." Philip Murray admitted there was "widespread restlessness," and added flatly: "This is the last postponement...
Derevyanko's letter accused MacArthur of permitting the Japanese government to balk democratization of the country by (among other things) crushing human rights with police brutality. Derevyanko's case in point consisted of a series of minor riots last month during which a trade-unionist demonstrator was killed in a clash with Japanese police. Replied MacArthur...
This huge Unionist victory was due in no small part to a continuous campaign of vilification of the North, conducted in the Republic south of the border. "How can I hold out the hand of friendship [to Eire] when [she has] a dagger in one hand, a pistol in the other, and a jemmy in her pocket?" complained the North's Prime
...pushing her pram up the hill with two babies and bundles, and her pregnant?" asked a Londonderry Republican. "Those houses she's going to could have been put up down below on as level a piece of land as ever you saw, but it might have risked a Unionist majority, to put working-class Catholics in that district." He snorted. "So the poor woman has to climb the hill to save a Unionist vote...
...then drew his own composite picture of the unknown diarist-a tall man, an important individual, friendly with Seward, Sumner, Douglas and lesser figures such asr William Aspinwall and James Orr, a man of the world, with a good knowledge of the French language, a strong Unionist with many Southern friends, a man with many business interests and a wide acquaintance in New York City, and-above all-a man who had been in New York City on Feb. 20, 1861, and in Washington on some 20 days between Dec. 28, 1860 and March...