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First to quick step after receiving the circular letter was the Podesta of Bergamo. Under his auspices met, next day, a joint conclave of the local Employers' Association and the Workingmen's Syndicates-both arch-Fascist organizations. Within 30 minutes they had adopted a resolution in part as follows...
What disgruntled Red agitators call "the slave mentality of British workingmen" was exhibited at Swansea, Wales, last week, when the 75th ("Diamond Jubilee") British Trade Union Congress (representing all the major unions), was called to order by a onetime weaver, Ben Turner, a snowy bearded patriarch of 65, always "Ben," never "Bennie...
When vigilant conservatives denounce "The Red Menace of Moscow!" they commonly have in mind (however vaguely or ignorantly) the Communist organization for world propaganda which is famed and dreaded as the "Third Internationale" but is actually named the Third International Association of Workingmen. Last week the Communist party of the U. S. sent to Moscow as delegates to the sixth conference of the Third Internationale, Comrade John Pepper & Comrade John Loveday. A total of 50 nations were represented. Cheers rose all round Comrade Loveday, when he cried: "A free proletarian state will arise in the U. S. on the ruins...
Arthur E. Holt, professor of sociology at Chicago Theological Seminary, wished to trace down to actual statistics the obvious facts that in proportion to total numbers far fewer workingmen, especially union men, belong to churches than do professional and business men. To do this he prepared a table showing the proportions of different men groups in Chicago's total men population and in Chicago's Church rosters. His table and conclusions he printed last week in The Christian, Disciples of Christ magazine...
...ideals, threw all its cars open to the public without discrimination at a 20 pfennig fare (5c). Many a proletarian grumbled because the onetime third-class fare had been only 15 pfennigs. Many an aristocrat was vexed to be crowded into third-class cars with wooden benches, while pushful workingmen reclined on first-class red velvet. All, however, were elated with civic pride at another feature of the new service: the one-class fare ticket is valid not only on the subway but permits transfer to busses, street cars-at no extra cost...