The Electricity Act 1947 introduced better retirement benefits for workers in that industry, and a Workers ’ Compensation ( Supplementation ) Act was passed in 1948 that introduced benefits for workers with certain asbestos-related diseases which had occurred before 1948.

The introduction of a Miner ’ s Charter in 1946 instituted a five-day work week for miners and a standardised day wage structure, and in 1948 a Colliery Workers Supplementary Scheme was approved, providing supplementary allowances to disabled coal-workers and their dependants.

He was much affected in his early political development by the events of the unsuccessful Workers ’ Revolution in Bavaria that followed the collapse of the German monarchy at the end of World War I ( see Bavarian Soviet Republic ), and he remained an idealistic socialist all his life.

Likelihood and Probability in R. A. Fisher ’ s Statistical Methods for Research Workers

Lenin advised Trotsky to emphasize Stalin ’ s recent bureaucratic alignment in such matters ( e. g. undermining the anti-bureaucratic Workers ’ and Peasants ’ Inspection ), and argued to depose Stalin as General Secretary.

Until exiled from Russia in 1929, Leon Trotsky helped develop and led the Left Opposition ( and the later Joint Opposition ) with members of the Workers ’ Opposition, the Decembrists, and ( later ) the Zinovievists.

Tensions finally reached breaking point and a Workers ’ Uprising took place on 17 June 1953, to be quickly and brutally crushed when Soviet tanks rolled in, and some of the worst violence occurred around Potsdamer Platz, where several people were killed by the Volkspolizei.

Workers also had good reasons for discontent: overcrowded housing with often deplorable sanitary conditions, long hours at work ( on the eve of the war a 10-hour workday six days a week was the average and many were working 11 – 12 hours a day by 1916 ), constant risk of injury and death from very poor safety and sanitary conditions, harsh discipline ( not only rules and fines, but foremen ’ s fists ), and inadequate wages ( made worse after 1914 by steep war-time increases in the cost of living ).

152 — The Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers shows the solicitude of the Church for the sick by helping those who serve the sick and suffering, so that their apostolate of mercy may ever more effectively respond to people ’ s needs.

The Agricultural Act of 1920 provided tenant farmers with greater protection by granting them better security of tenure whilst the Unemployed Workers ’ Dependants ( Temporary Provisions ) Act of 1921 provided payments for the wives and dependant children of unemployed workers.

“ The term ‘ anarcho-syndicalist ’ only came into wide use in 1921-1922 when it was applied polemically as a pejorative term by communists to any syndicalists … who opposed increased control of syndicalism by the communist parties .” In fact, the original statement of aims and principles of the International Workers Association ( drafted in 1922 ) refers not to anarcho-syndicalism, but to revolutionary syndicalism or revolutionary unionism, depending on the translation.

In July 2010, the Syrian security services conducted a series of raids that netted operatives of the Kurdistan Workers ’ Party ( PKK ), accused of plotting and implementing terrorist attacks in neighboring Turkey.

In Jewell Ridge Coal Corp. v. Mine Workers ( 1945 ), the Supreme Court faced the issue of whether to grant the coal company ’ s petition for rehearing on the grounds that the victorious miners were, in a previous matter, represented by Crampton P. Harris, who was Justice Black ’ s former law partner and personal lawyer.

Defensively, Palmer then warned that a government-deposing left-wing revolution would begin on 1 May 1920 — May Day, the International Workers ’ Day.

SATEB ( Workers ’ Esperanto Movement ) is the British affiliate of the non-nationalist world organisation SAT ( Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda ) which is a worldwide worker movement active in socialist, peace, trade union, feminist and environmental issues.

Fu ’ ad Nasar, the Secretary of Arab Workers Congress, also accepted partition.

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Workers migrated south to take hold of peasants ’ surpluses.

Historian Geoff Andrews ' explains ‘ it was the role of the shop stewards in organising the Broad Lefts and influencing trade union leaders that was the key rather than organising the rank and file in defiance of leaderships ’ and so the party withdrew from rank-and-file organisations like the Building Workers Charter, and attacked " Trotskyist " tactics at the Pilkington Glass dispute in 1970.

His involvement with community organizations included founding the Farm Workers ’ Legal Information Service ( later Canadian Farm Workers ' Union ), serving on the board of directors for BC Civil Liberties Association and the Vancouver Multicultural Society, and the Labour Advocacy Research Association, as well as volunteer work with MOSAIC Immigrant Services Centre, and the South Vancouver Neighbourhood House.

Workers processing pomegranate s ( anaar ), which Afghanistan is famous for in Asia.

Some wings of the Worker's Party have disagreed with the increasing moderation in focus since the late eighties and have left the party to form dissident wings such as the Workers ' Cause Party, the United Socialist Workers ' Party and, already during Lula ` s presidency, the Socialism and Freedom Party.

'" According to Politico, Carney, a staff writer covering lobbying and influence for CQ Roll Call, " made the first identifiable, published reference to ' super PAC ' as it ’ s known today while working at National Journal, writing on June 26, 2010, of a group called Workers ’ Voices, that it was a kind of '" super PAC " that could become increasingly popular in the post-Citizens United world.

Lewis continued to denounce the AFL ’ s policies while the CIO offered organizing support to workers in the rubber industry who went on strike and formed the Steel Workers Organizing Committee ( SWOC ), in defiance of all of the craft divisions that the AFL had required in past organizing efforts, in 1936 ; Lee Pressman, affiliated with the far left, became the union's General Counsel.

The Mine Workers led by Lewis, with a strong pro-Soviet presence, opposed Roosevelt ’ s reelection in 1940 and left the CIO in 1942.

The CIO leadership, particularly those in more left unions such as the Packinghouse Workers, the UAW, the NMU and the Transport Workers, undertook serious efforts to suppress hate strikes, to educate their membership and to support the Roosevelt Administration ’ s tentative efforts to remedy racial discrimination in war industries through the Fair Employment Practices Commission.

Workers in hazmat suit s check the status of a cleanup site CERCLA was enacted by Congress in 1980 in response to the threat of hazardous waste sites, typified by the Love Canal disaster in New York, and the Valley of the Drums in Kentucky.

She opted to change the angle previously attempted and was able to include women ’ s rights as an important lever in the machine to create an independent Workers ' Union.

Deirdre Griswold told the Cuban Communists in July 1972, that Stapp ’ s visit to Communist North Korea was an example of the “ International Relationships ” maintained by the Workers World Party.

Marcy ’ s letter affirms that the Workers World Party values their close relationship with Workers Party of Korea and considers Kim Il Sung a great leader and comrade in the international communist movement.

Most of the opposition Workers ' Party ( WP )' s team of six were in their 20s and the constituency was contested for the first time in 15 years.

In 1995 the 15, 000-member Textile Workers and the 15, 000-member Distillery Workers unions merged with the UFCW, forming respectively the UFCW Textile and Garment Council and the UFCW ’ s Distillery, Wine and Allied Workers Division.

Workers producing shuttle ( weaving ) | shuttles for the textile industry, c. 1920.

In 1929 the National Textile Workers led a strike of thousands of textile workers in Gastonia, North Carolina, who walked out, despite the NTW's attempts to hold them back, after management fired five union activists.

Workers ' dissatisfaction with conditions led to numerous strikes in the textile unions, and the CIO organized labor in other industries, with more strikes taking place.

The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union is a labor union representing approximately 1. 3 million workers in the United States and Canada in many industries, including agriculture, health care, meatpacking, poultry and food processing, manufacturing, textile, G4S Security, chemical trades, and retail food.

Even so, the promise of the right to join a union had an electrifying effect on textile workers: the United Textile Workers ( UTW ), which had no more than 15, 000 members in February, 1933, grew to 250, 000 members by June, 1934, of whom roughly half were cotton mill workers.

TWOC's successor, the Textile Workers Union of America, faced similar problems organizing in the South ; the CIO's postwar organizing drive in the South fell apart chiefly because of its inability to organize textile workers there.

Hillman played a role in nearly every major initiative of the CIO in those years, He oversaw, and provided major financial support for, the Textile Workers Organizing Committee, which sought to establish a new union for textile workers after the disastrous defeat of the United Textile Workers ' strike in 1934.

Socialist Workers Party SWP members took up union jobs in basic industries such as meatpacking, steel, mining and textile industries.

Workers, even outside the textile industry, began to plan for a general strike.

In 2010, activists in the Rhode Island Labor Movement began a drive to change the name of the airport to " Workers Memorial Airport " because of Green's involvement in the violent suppression of a textile workers strike in Saylesville, Rhode Island in 1934.

Coimbatore District Textile Workers Union, a trade union in the textile industry in Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu, India.

The ACWA provided major financial support for the Textile Workers Organizing Committee, which sought to establish a new union for textile workers after the disastrous defeat of the United Textile Workers ' strike in 1934.

The WTUL's semi-official relationship with the American Federation of Labor was also strained when the United Textile Workers, an AFL affiliate, insisted that it stop providing relief for Lawrence, Massachusetts textile workers who refused to return to work during the strike led by the Industrial Workers of the World ; some WTUL leaders complied, while others refused, denouncing both the AFL and the WTUL for its acquiescence in strikebreaking activities.

The Textile Workers Union of America ( TWUA ) was an industrial union of textile workers established through the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1939 and merged with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to become the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union ( ACTWU ) in 1976.

After several further mergers, the TWUA's textile locals became part Workers United, a manufacturing and hospitality workers union.

A high school dropout textile worker, he became a founding member of the General Confederation of Workers and Farmers of Mexico ( CGOCM ) in 1920 and a founding member of the Revolutionary Institutional Party ( formerly, PNR ).