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...taken to Russia after the war, went home to report that "in branches of science where Marxism-Leninism is not directly applicable, there is no feeling of oppression. I could discuss my field with no sense of being in Russia or America or Brazil." Adds U.S. Meteorologist Gordon D. Cartwright, who recently spent some 18 months on a Russian scientific expedition to the Antarctic: "These were unique people-warm, friendly and full of fun." Politics almost never raised its unscientific head...
...Lancashire weavers rioted in 1791 and burned to the ground a cotton mill newly set up by Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom. Time and again as the Industrial Revolution spread, workmen fearful of losing their livelihood attacked new labor-saving machines with hammers and torches. Even today, some labor unions (e.g., building trades, printers, stagehands, locomotive engineers) combat technological progress with featherbedding practices; their leaders regard automation with a milder and more law-abiding version of the 18th century loom-wrecker's wild fear...
...labor has come far since Edmund Cartwright's day. How very far was plain last week when delegates at the Amalgamated Lithographers of America convention in Chicago adopted a proposal to put $1 million in A.L.A. money into a fund to promote technological advances in lithography, provided that employers put up a matching sum. The fund will bring "better working conditions and real wage increases," argued Edward Swayduck, the man behind the plan...
...easy to see why Worthy does not feel kindly, personally or racially, toward official Washington. He feels that the State Department, through security officer Robert Cartwright, attempted to smear him by implying that his conscientious objection in 1944 was a draft-dodging device. Worthy believes that this is simply clouding the issue of his constitutional right to a passport and was very gratified to hear that Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming had said "Worthy's reputation as a citizen is unsullied, and the State Department owes him an apology...
Worthy accused Cartwright of trying to "becloud the issue of freedom of movement and freedom of the press," and further explained that there was no need for his going to an objectors' camp, since he was found to be eligible for 4-F classification because of a duodenal disorder...