Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Russian parachute jumpers, pilots and sharpshooters, children clutching airplane models and girls in nurses' uniforms trooped across Red Square behind dipped crimson banners. The only direct reference to Germany among the hundreds of banners attacking Fascism and aggressor nations were those proclaiming "Bolshevist greetings to the revolutionary proletariat in Germany...
...strike, the constitution borrowed almost the exact words of a recent Cárdenas radioration as its charter: that "the principal task of the Latin American working class consists in winning full economic and political autonomy for Latin American nations. . . . Fascism is opposed to the objectives of the proletariat and must be combated in all its forms." The Congress asked a pardon for Tom Mooney, cabled exhortations of "courage" to Czechoslovak workers and demanded independence for Puerto Rico...
...Deal is a joy ride of the Purchased proletariat in which the sign "NO LEFT TURN" is ignored...
...Mexico's loudmouthed, posturing, Moscow-visiting Vicente Lombardo Toledano. He claims to lead 1,000,000 organized proletarians in his Confederation of Mexican Workers-by far the most potent force of its kind in the country. It was the President's zeal to show the proletariat that he would do as much for it as he is doing for the peasantry which caused him last spring abruptly to pick the oil Apple in the Mexican Eden-i.e., confiscate the $400,000,000 oil properties when their owners, who had already yielded much to their Mexican workers, refused...
...among the lately lionized workers of the U. S. is the white-collar man. Because organized Labor long accepted his view that he was not of the overalled proletariat, he could, even two years ago, hardly have found a union had he wanted to. Since then C.I.O's top white-collar union, United Office & Professional Workers of America has boomed from 6.000 to 45,000 members...