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...time the drive to reform the Federation along vertical (industrial) lines rather than the traditional horizontal (craft) union structure was precipitated by the Oilfield, Gas Well & Refinery Workers, who were about to be decimated among metal craft organizations. Other small, new industrial unions were marshaling for verticalism under the covert leadership, it was said, of John Llewellyn Lewis, whose United Mine Workers are organized vertically and form the most powerful single A. F. of L. unit...
Sergeant Jurney decided to beat one more covert before quitting for the day. The motorcade drove back to Washington to the Hotel Shoreham to ask Bernard B. Robinson, Hopson's "Washington representative", whether he knew where his boss was. At the desk of the Shoreham whom should Mr. Jurney bump into but beefy, bad-tempered Chairman John J. O'Connor of the House Rules Committee, who captured "Pimpernel" Hopson fortnight...
...smart to challenge Stalin openly, she hobbled out to the All Union Congress of Young Communist Women and slipped in her covert protest. "The mother instinct is noble, and we consider it a great force, but we do not want our women to devote their lives to rearing children only!" cried Widow Lenin, herself childless and a typical Old Bolshevik, with scorn for the bourgeois virtues. "We do not want child bearing or any other aspect of married life to separate our women from public work...
...Tactics of Tyranny" Up the first day of the Assembly jumped a Philadelphia commissioner to challenge the seating of three Machenite commissioners, all members of the rebel Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Retiring Moderator William Chalmers Covert referred the matter to the Committee on Polity, which after four days of solemn deliberation set off a churchly furor by voting 21-to-1 to unseat the challenged three for their refusal to obey the 1934 Assembly's orders, resign from the Independent Board. Furiously cried one of them, Philadelphia's Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths: "The machine may find...
Though Fundamentalists repeatedly talk of a Presbyterian "machine," few speak up in meeting to give it a name and address. Last month the Presbyterian Banner, anti-Fundamentalist weekly, made bold to list some able machine men: Dr. Covert, Dr. McDowell, Stated Clerk Lewis Seymour Mudge, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman, President Joseph Ross Stevenson of Princeton Theological Seminary, Dr. Hugh Thomson Kerr, Dr. Mark Allison Matthews-onetime Moderators all. If these Presbyterians represent a machine, it is because they stick together, see to it that Assemblies run smoothly, unite in a conservative distaste for extreme Fundamentalism. Last...