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unusual facts about The Worker


The Worker

Daily Worker, a newspaper published in New York City by the Communist Party USA


Darkness at Noon

According to Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley in an article published in 2000, the Communists considered Koestler's novel important enough to prevent its being adapted for movies; the writer Dalton Trumbo "bragged" about his success in that to the newspaper The Worker.

Jefferson School of Social Science

At the last of these sessions, John Gates, editor of the official party newspaper, The Worker, was sharply critical of the American party's blind obedience, its support of its Trotskyist opponents under the Smith Act, and its failure to commit itself to a peaceful path to socialism based upon maintained civil liberties.


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102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger

The actor Mikael Persbrandt reads passages from some of Jünger's works, such as Storm of Steel, The Worker, On the Marble Cliffs and The Glass Bees.

Breton Social-National Workers' Movement

Having adopted for a flag a standard (designed by Olier Mordrel several years before) closely resembling a Nazi flag — black ermine at the center of a white circle on a red field representing "the blood of the worker" — Théophile Jeusset recruited several followers in the workshops and factories of Ille-et-Vilaine and organized about twenty meetings in the back rooms of restaurants in Rennes.

Christ the Worker Parish, Hong Kong

As most of the residents in the Ngau Tau Kok, Kowloon Bay and Jordan Valley at that time were blue collar workers, the parish was therefore named as “Christ the Worker Parish”.

Daily Worker

In December 1921 the "aboveground" Workers Party of America was founded and the Toiler merged with Workers Council of the Workers' Council of the United States to found the six page weekly The Worker.

Denis Goulet

Goulet's work drew its major inspiration from the writings and examples of a group French religious intellectuals including Charles de Foucauld, Simone Weil, Louis-Joseph Lebret and the “worker priests” of the last century and from the hunger and thirst for justice of the gospel of Matthew.

Dolichoderus mariae

It was found that the worker ants remove soil from under clumps of wiregrass, other grasses or other fibrous rooted plants such as blackberry (Rubus spp.) or cattails (Typha spp.).

Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station

The worker put the fire out with a fire extinguisher but was burned on his arms and face and he was airlifted via helicopter to Lincoln, Nebraska.

Freedom on the Wallaby

"Freedom on the Wallaby", Henry Lawson's well known poem, was written as a comment on the 1891 Australian shearers' strike and published by William Lane in the Worker in Brisbane, 16 May 1891.

Goo-goos

In John Steinbeck's novella, Of Mice and Men, the worker Whit approves of a whore house that doesn't "let no goo-goos in neither."

Hougang

In the 2011 General Elections, Yaw from the Worker's Party won the seat for Hougang SMC against PAP's Desmond Choo, taking 64.81 per cent of the valid votes.

Road maintenance depot

Most depots will have limited accommodation facilities for staff who are on-call, particularly during heavy winter storms, when travel between the worker's home and the depot may be restricted.

SV Viktoria Preußen 07

The present day club was formed out of the 1965 merger of Viktoria and FC Preußen, itself created out of the worker's club of railway catering company Mitropa in 1951.

William F. Dunne

At the end of 1922, when the underground CPA established its overground sibling, the Workers Party of America (WPA), Bill Dunne was elected one of three editors of the organization's weekly newspaper, The Worker.