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...Coshocton (Ohio) local of John Lewis' United Mine Workers. After splitting with C. I. O. the A. F. of L. started to play ball with a rival union, Progressive Miners of America, and John Lewis threatened to kick Miner Green out of the United Mine Workers for "treason." Since Mr. Green's home town local, whose financial secretary is Mr. Green's brother, would probably stand by him, Mr. Lewis proposed to try him before the International's executive board, later before the full Mine Workers' convention -where Mr. Lewis could employ to the utmost...
...That Shantung's former Governor, General Han Fu-chu, was arrested by order of the Generalissimo, carried to Hankow, tried for treason and reported executed. Last year General Han contributed $50,000,000 Mex. to Chiang's cause, but his complete failure to defend Shantung presumably canceled this credit...
...discovered grave armed plots against the State. But the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Camille Chautemps, supported by a coalition of Communists, Socialists and Radical Socialists, kept the French public in the dark. A score of Rightists, few prominent, were arrested, but their loud demands to be accused of treason and given their day in court were ignored. Fortnight ago, with the evident consent of the General Staff, a general on active duty declared that there was to have been a Communist coup d'etat on November 16, but that word of it reached the Staff in time...
...jurisdictional claims of rival C. I. O. & A. F. of L. unions, subsequently allowing the original C. I. 0. unions to return to A. F. of L. as a group. "Such an approach, it seems to us. could not have been stigmatized by any right thinking person as 'treason' or 'desertion' by either side." In other words, the Garment Workers placed responsibility for the breakdown of the peace negotiations squarely on the head of John L. Lewis...
...offense for which he was censored was not obscenity, irreverence, intoxication or treason. His proposed remarks were considered antisocial, an offense against an ancient British institution: Fox Hunting...