Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After holding the offices of Manhattan's Daily Worker for eight days, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service last week let the Communist daily's staffers go back to their desks. Price of the settlement: $3,000, which the Worker's attorney put up as bond for the release of typewriters, desks, Addressograph machines, etc. As the Worker's workers settled in, U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell said that the raids on the Worker and the Communist Party in six U.S. cities were aimed at collecting delinquent taxes and not at halting subversion. They were not planned...
...sixteen-ton impact because of its tootling orchestration and Tennessee Ernie Ford's richly lugubrious style. To the jukebox generation the words were all but meaningless. Yet, as late as the 1920s, the ballad's bitter plaint was a real-life refrain to millions of U.S. workers from Georgia's green-roofed cotton villages to Oregon's bleak lumber settlements. Those workers had lived, like Composer Merle Travis' coalminer father, in company towns-drab, depressed communities where the worker traded at a company store,* rented a company house, was watched by company cops. Today company...
...last week four nattily tailored men climbed out of a taxicab, moved quickly across the sidewalk and into the grimy lobby. There they wedged themselves into the tiny elevator and rode to the eighth floor, headquarters of the Communist Party's biggest propaganda machine, the Daily Worker (circ. 9,000). At exactly 1 p.m. the four men trooped into the Worker's dingy newsrooms, identified themselves to Office Manager Dorothy Robinson as U.S. Treasury tax agents, and presented a lien of $46,049 for unpaid income taxes in 1951-53 (at the same moment similar liens were presented...
Managing Editor Alan Max instead told the eight staffers then in the office to stick to their desks. Then staffers put in calls to the Daily Worker's Lawyer Harry Sacher and New York newspapers that "we're being raided. Send a man over." While 40 reporters and TV cameramen crowded into the office, the Worker's reporters batted out copy for the 6 p.m. deadline. But an hour before deadline the T-men shooed everybody out and padlocked the Worker's offices. Staffers walked two stories downstairs to the offices of Morning Freiheit (the Communists...
...dailies across the country, the seizure of the assets of the Daily Worker and the Communist Party was Page One news, and the Worker took quick advantage of all the free publicity. It boosted its press run and claimed it was selling 5,000 extra copies daily. In Detroit, Chicago and other cities, business also picked up. When six T-men showed up at the Detroit Worker office, Editor William Allan refused to accept the seizure order, argued that his paper was owned by a separate Michigan corporation. After an hour's discussion, the T-men left. Though Chicago...