9/6 Labor Day To Woodlawn where I beat Hotz. We played chess and baseball with the Dranows. Their kids Ralph and Carol and Linda Berman played with our kids.We won the Davis Cup again. Parker and Schroeder winning their singles over Quist and Sidwell and Talbert and Mulloy winning the doubles over Sidwell and Long 4 sets. Parker beat Sidwell 6-4,6-4,6-4, Schroeder won 6-3,4-6,6-0,6-0. N.J. truck drivers joined the strike. The T.W.U. I.E.B. rejected Truman 19-5 repudiating Quill's endorsement. A rump group aided by Reuther and Murray is trying to split the progressive Wayne Co. C.I.O. Wallace ended his seven day, 28 city Southern tour marked by heckling and unsegregated audiences. The christian general Marshall Feng died in a fire aboard a Russian ship sailing from N.Y. to Russia. Read "The Brothers Karamazov".
Did not remember the Dranows; googled the name, found his (Ralph Dranow) website and had a brief email conversation which he didn't seem interested in continuing. He didn't remember us, either.
9/7 Eugene borrowed "Swallowdale" by A. Ransome (one of a series he loves), "The Last of the Mohicans", "Tales of Laughter" edited by Kate D. Wiggin and Nora Smith and "Heroes of the Kalevala" by Babette Deutsch. Sylvia borrowed "The Horse that Lived Upstairs by P. McGinley, "Lief the Lucky" by I&E Parin D'Aulaire, "Augustus" by C. H. Bishop and The Sorcerer's Apprentice by R. Ristron [?]. The kids went to the playground on the bars, big swings, then slid down together on the sliding pond. Truman addressed 50,000 unionists in Detroit many of whom waved Wallace banners. Wallace addressed (the U.E. Nat'l convention. In Berlin, leftists drove opponents out of the City Hall. Western Zone policemen were seized. The demonstration was for relief and a hunt for criminal elements being concealed by the Western powers.
There's definitely an "open paren" there, but no "close paren".
9/8 Lost to Lavender. Sylvia cried at home and in the park although she was with Eugene. Eugene built an airplane from his erector set. O'Dwyer's administration will battle to prevent the referendum on the 5¢ fare which the A.L.P. has made possible with 100000 petitions. C.P. leaders under indictment have been barred from traveling privileges. Schuman failed to get a vote of confidence by six votes. The gov'ts recent bonus is considered inadequate. Truckers bosses rejected teamsters minimum demands in the week old strike. Polish C.P. leader Gomulka was ousted in favor of President Bierut on charges of supported Tito and of laxness in the fight against Capitalism. The U.O.P.W.A. voted against non-compliance with the non-comm. affidavits of the Taft Hartley law. The U.E. convention voted to allow the membership to support any candidate they prefer. It also asked for a cessation of Union raiding. Canadian delegates to the convention were quizzed at LaGuardia Field with some barred and one jailed in Ellis Island.
9/9 Went to the "Fed" meeting tonight where I got a $2.50 check for enrolling ten members. At the U.E. convention, Carey was censured for stooging for the employers and gov't inquisitors. Left wing officers were re-elected by 5-1. Tito was again attacked by Moscow. Minor disturbances featured Benes' funeral. The Macy local seceded from the R.W. & D.S.E. union but voted to comply with the "T.H." law in order to retain the union shop. Local 100 E.B. fo the T.W.U. ousted lawyer Harry Packer.
9/10 The kids played records today acting out the nursery rhymes. When Eugene meets Bobby R. in the street they always scuffle about. Soviet troops fired at 200,000 Berlin anti-Communists killing one. At the "House" labor hearing in the fur industry, bosses admitted the workers support their left wing leaders and also work for Wallace. H. Queuille formed a new French gov't without the C.P. The travel ban on the ten indicted C.P. leaders was rescinded. In Southern primaries Rankin and H. Talmadge won by larger margins than ever. Lillian took the kids to Dr. Holzman. Sylvia gained but Eugene lost two pounds. He was given penicillin drops for his sinus. They both got vitamins (vitafort).
9/11 We went to Forest Hills today with Sylvia who wouldn't stay with Mom & Pop. Eugene did, splitting chess games with Pop. He got an Album as a souvenir from Loch Sheldrake and Sylvia got a pocket book. We saw Earl Cochell look classy in beating Ed Moylan. We also saw Tom Brown beat Jim Brink. 50,000 heard Wallace and others in a record breaking political rally at the Yankee Stadium. Other speakers were Marcantonio, Robeson, Fitzgerald, Isacson, Rogge, Ada Jackson, Irma Lindheim and Lee Pressman. The British T.U.C. voted to criticize fascist Greece but refused to back the W.F.T.U. of which it is a member and refused to recommend that suspected gov't employees be represented by counsel. U.E. voted against the E.R.P. Many truckers signed for 17 1/2 per hour. Wayne County C.I.O. officers were ousted and the Council was taken over by right wingers. Jinnah is dead at 71.
The following box score was pasted in here without explanation; it's pretty clear why.
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