Dec 7 Truman's granting of the miners' $1.90 a day wage raise has resulted in a mass resignation of the industry members of the W.S.B.
Dad omitted noting that it was Sunday.
Dec 8 Three "Brownies" "flew up" today into the the intermediate group - Sylvia, Harriet Spiegel and Francine Feder. A little affair was held at the new groups meeting place in the Methodist Church. They baked a cake and Lillian baked "brownies". Andre Marty and Charles Tillon were stripped of all "party" functions for "factionalism" Alois Havrilla is dead at 61.
Dec 9 50 were killed in Morocco as rebellion against France spread in North Africa. Itzhak Ben-Zvi was elected second President of Israel. A military junta seized power in Venezuela - falsifying the Election returns.
Dec 10 The N.A.A.C.P. began arguments before the Supreme Court that segregated schools violated the civil rights of Negroes. John W Davis defended for South Carolina. The State Crime Commission heard declarations that $75,000 in graft was paid to Union officials before Russian furs were unloaded by stevedores. Whites joined Negroes in passive resistance to segregation in South Africa. Ghandi's [sic] son, a son of a former Gov. Gen'l of South Africa and a son of Negro leader Sol Sachs were jailed for sympathy acts.
Sol Sachs was a prominent labor union leader in South Africa, and I'm sure Dad meant to write "labor leader".
Dec 11 Eugene stayed home in a driving rain due to a stuffed nose. The French arrested Nationalist and Communist leaders in the Moroccan disorders.
Dec 12 Former Mayor O'Dwyer who resigned as Ambassador to Mexico Saturday denied he had received $10,000 from the U.F.A. to influence legislation.
Dec. 13 North and South Koreans continue to slaughter each other for hills which are won and re-won many times. 167 Moroccans were sentenced to 1 year terms for rioting. 1200 delegates attended the opening session of the "Congress of the Peoples for Peace" in Vienna. Among those present were the Dean of Canterbury, Joliot-Curie, Mme Sun Yat-sen, Emil Zatopek, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Aragon, Ilya Ehrenburg.
My father started a "diary" in 1945 (more accurately, a journal, covering both family and current events), and I'm going to see if this is a decent way to publish it. Since I'm doing it as a blog, to get to the beginning of the journal, you have to go to the beginning of the blog.
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