Word: workingman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...again was the recognition of relations of cooperation for great and common ends." Editorialized London's Express: "All skeins of diplomacy, all military feats, panics, rumors, sorties and full assaults recede into their proper perspective behind the one dominant figure of this war. This figure is the British workingman, his arms bared, his muscles flexed, and the sweat upon his brow...
...Roman Catholic Church ranges from plain people to prelates. A prelate who takes a particular interest in plain people is the Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil, Senior Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago. Shrewd, kindly, soft-spoken Bishop Sheil realizes that the workingman is the backbone of his Church, last year made headlines by supporting C. I. O.'s organization of the packinghouse workers in Chicago's stockyards. Last winter the Bishop did some organizing himself. Last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel the directors of Bishop Sheil's Industrial Areas Foundation (who include John L. Lewis...
...poll which seemed to show that labor scarcely knew its avowed friends from its alleged enemies: "Extraordinary is the fact that so many names that are prominently identified, pro or con, with labor in politics and labor in industry should be so far on the fringe of the workingman's consciousness as to evoke a 'Don't know...
...bring millions of Anglo-French Trade Unionists behind the Anglo-French imperialist war machine." In the course of the articles the Worker's bush-browed crack writer, Ben Francis, called Sir Walter & friends such names as "lickspittles" and industrialists' "lackeys" who would "do down" the British workingman. The Worker was sued for libel...
Next week at the same time in the Kirkland House Common Room, the Reverend Bernard W. Dempsey, S.J., of St. Louis University, will talk on "The Church and the Workingman." On Monday, March 4, the Reverend Francis J. Greene, chapian of the Club, will discuss "The Church and the Student," in the Winthrop House Common Room. The Reverend Michael J. Ahern, S.J., of Weston College, will talk the following week on "The Church...