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Messrs. Bridges, Curran and Mervyn Rathbone (American Communications Association) rose to demand i) copies of that important document, and 2) a clause prohibiting discrimination against union members because of political beliefs (i.e., Communism). They did not get their clause, but they did delay debate until copies were distributed next...
Having profanely put Mr. Bridges in his place, John L. Lewis informed the delegates that their constitution was a democratic document, ordered them to adopt it forthwith. They did. Its chief provisions gave each of C. I. O.'s 41 affiliates a member of the international executive board, empowered that board to investigate any "situation"' in any affiliate but left punitive action against member unions to annual or special C. I. O. conventions...
Next morning, worried, haggard Columnist Broun (who had approved the offending resolution) shambled to the platform, apologized for Mr. Watson's "clumsy wording" and declared the document didn't mean what it said, its denunciation did not apply to correspondents. Mr. Broun concluded: "But I do not except any publisher˜not a single one!" One Piece. To keep C.I.O.'s 41 national unions, 675 locals and 3,787,877 claimed members all in one piece, John Lewis depends upon: 1) his prestige; 2) the C.I.O. constitution, which vests large powers in his executive board...
Comrade Ryvin, a new official of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture, told the meeting of the following case: 'Once,' he said, 'we worked out the rates of remuneration of a certain class of collective-farm workers. It was an important and urgent document. We took it to the Vice Commissar for his approval. While, however, we were giving him our explanatory comment on the document, he fell asleep...
...years. Reason: in 1891 her father, General Henry Clay Ide, U. S. Land Commissioner in Samoa, told his great & good friend Stevenson that his small daughter Annie always felt aggrieved because her birthday fell on December 25. Straightway Author Stevenson drew up, signed, had witnessed a document transferring to her all the rights & privileges...