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...impending struggle, victory for Green & allies would mean that organized Labor was to remain split in a hundred quarreling groups, patterned on a vanished industrial structure and excluding from its ranks the great mass of workers in the nation's industries. Victory for Lewis & allies would open the way for organized Labor to adapt itself to the times, fulfill its enormous potentialities. Conceivably neither side would win, in which case Labor would probably destroy itself...
...dismal years since Steelmaster Henry Clay Frick bloodily crushed the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers at Homestead, Pa. in 1892. Not until 1919 did A. F. of L. recover courage to attempt a campaign in the nation's No. 1 basic industry. Its program was to split Steel's craftsmen among no less than 24 of its craft unions-unions in which there was no place for the mass of unskilled steel workers. Sympathetic labor historians believe that the campaign was lost less because of the savage resistance of steel-masters and their police and military...
...body they contemptuously dismissed the demand by declaring it "inconceivable that the Executive Council would commit any act to split the labor forces of America in the midst of the campaign in the iron and steel indus try and in the face of the arrogant ultimatum issued to the entire labor movement by the American Iron and Steel Institute." R, L P. At week's end the steel campaigners repaired for inspiration to the scene of the first great battle between U. S. steelmasters and U. S. steelmakers...
...convention was over Peace. Many a delegate, including China's Chengting T. Wang, spoke eloquently upon the ill will rampant in the world today. But when the Rotary Club of Barking, England proposed to put the united shoulder of Rotary International behind the wheel of Peace, the convention split. Cried Rotarian Cyril Franklin, a Briton from Hereford: "If Rotary wants to leave its past policy of inspiring individual Rotarians to active support of outside peace movements, we will be playing with fire. If Rotary splits into parties with national points of view, what will be left? The resolution...
...time allowance. Time of the winner was 4 days, 20 hr., very slow because of a 50 m.p.h. gale which swooped down on the fleet in the Gulf Stream, made the race the roughest in 13 years, forced six yachts to scuttle back to the U. S. with split sails, broken rigging...