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John Lewis is an industrial unionist. Any worker in the coal industry can find a place in his United Mine Workers. For a greater labor movement and a more united front, John Lewis wants to see 40,000,000 U. S. workers organized in industrial unions like his and amalgamated into something like the American Federation of Labor. MINER LEWIS, HIS HOUSE & OFFICE-He takes his unionism vertically. Less than 15% of the workers in U. S. industry now belong to the A. F. of L., whose total membership is short of 3,500,000. Fundamentally it is an association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Miners Meet | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

From the Champion's quarters came two cordial invitations to Business to skip rope with him. It was announced that any industry which would like to try NRA again was welcome to apply to George L. Berry, longtime printers' unionist and onetime Blue Eaglet. The United Press also reported that the Administration was seven billion dollars behind its immediate spending program, would soon "issue a revised budget that will give a new, sharper and more glowing picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roadwork | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...Loyal Opposition, stubborn "Old George" Lansbury, 76, explained last week the aggressive Pacifism which caused him to threaten to resign as Labor Party Leader when the proletarian Socialists of British Labor's Trades Union Congress fortnight ago urged war if necessary to restrain Fascist Italy. Never a militant trade unionist, Mr. Lansbury warned Laborites last week at Dumfries: "War, either by the League against aggressor or by one State against another would leave the world more unsettled than after the last war. That war was waged because we had pledged help to Belgium. It ended in the complete defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Christian & Cockney | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

...Communist," declared Kanju Kato, who was nearly barred from the U. S. on the assumption that he was. "I am a militant unionist. I should per-haps explain that a left winger like myself in Japan is actually much further to the right than a left winger in America. I adhere to the left wing group of workers' unions in Japan who are striving to overthrow Capitalism by means of the class struggle. Organized workers in Japan number 380,000 out of a total working class population of 5,770,000. Naturally the proletariat of Japan is opposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Proletariat's Spokesman | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...years as a zealous alumna, clubwoman and W. C. T. Unionist, Martha Ijams had rarely been so misunderstood. When she read the White House interpretation, she tossed her blonde hair (which she wears in a modified Gibson Girl coiffure), determined to make her snubs crystal clear. Back to Washington over the press wires went her answer: "I have nothing but contempt for [Mrs. Roosevelt]. She is as presumptuous as usual in her assumption as to what I intended or did not intend relative to Miss Perkins. Why should I answer her? Nothing she ever says is worth answering. The obvious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spinster Snubber | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

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