Word: union
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called an "advertising strike." It was supposed to advertise French organized labor, whose power had seriously declined in the past year, chiefly because most Frenchmen were disgusted by Communist-provoked strikes. Union-membership had dropped off 30% in two years...
...forget its black Friday. As it turned out, strikebound Friday was at worst only a dull grey. According to the Ministry of Interior, the strike" was 100% effective in the northern and eastern coal mines, in the ports, in some metal industries. But a majority of France's union members openly defied the strike call...
Russia's composers had spoken their apologies for their past sins of "formalism" and "bourgeois ideology," and promised they would try harder to stay in the right key. Last week, the big brass of the Soviet Composers' Union assembled at the Moscow Conservatory to hear if all the promises had been kept...
...struggle of the people of southern Azerbaijan "with the Anglo-American imperialists in Iran." A Sixth Symphony, by one Janis Ivanov, had been inspired by the "difficult past and bright present" of the Latvian people (no longer harassed by political independence since their 1940 incorporation in the Soviet Union...
Before the session was over, the union would hear a new song, Glory to the Great Stalin, and an opera about the reconstruction of a collective farm...