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...Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. Relegated to a back seat when John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization took over his decrepit little craft union and set out to make it a great industrial union of all the nation's steelworkers (TIME, June 15 et seq.), reactionary old Mike Tighe offered ill health as reason for his resignation, actually got out before the union's new blood voted...
...industrial plants and mines scattered throughout France, fresh proletarian unrest appeared last week. In all some 7.000 workers "folded arms" in strikes-as compared to more than 1,000,000 few months ago when it was a case of getting wages upped and winning vacations (TIME, June 8 et seq.). The new strikes were in sympathy with the new Spanish Cabinet headed by out-and-out proletarian Premier Francisco Largo Caballero (see p. 22). In Paris an imposing delegation from the French Metal Workers' Union bearing a petition with 2,000 signatures waited on French Premier Leon Blum, demanding...
...eight Egyptians assassinated the British Sirdar General Sir Lee Stack and in punishment Britain excluded Egyptian soldiers from the Sudan, closed it to Egyptian farmers who wished to move in, and exacted from the Egyptian Government cash damages of $2,500,000 (TIME, Dec. i, 1924 et seq...
...Madrid last week to state for the first time what is the Government's program in case its Red militia defeat 80% of the Spanish army led by Generalissimo Francisco Franco and General Emilio Mola in a White (i. e., conservative) insurrection against Madrid (TIME, July 27 et seq...
...armies in Spain (see col. 3). Active mothering by Moscow of the activities of Communists abroad was always strongly upheld by Trotsky so long as he was in Russia, and he was run out by Stalin after their historic quarrel upon that very point (TIME, June 13, 1927, et seq.). Prominent Soviet figures found it a great nerve strain to have been even remotely mentioned in court last week as having known some-thing was afoot against Stalin, even though charged with nothing themselves. Among half a dozen Bolshevik bigwigs who thus jittered, first to commit suicide was Comrade Mikhail...