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21One Big Union (Canada) — For the concept, see One Big Union (concept). OBU Full name One Big Union Founded 1919 Date dissolved 1956 Federation merger Canadian Labour Congress Members 40,000 70,000 …
22Lula — ▪ 2003 On Oct. 27, 2002 Lula s 57th birthday voters in Brazil handed him a landslide victory in his fourth attempt at the presidency. The election capped the remarkable rise of a former lathe operator and union leader to the nation s top… …
23arts, East Asian — Introduction music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature. Some studies of East Asia… …
24Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio — ▪ president of Brazil originally Luiz Inácio da Silva , byname Lula born Oct. 27, 1945, Garanhuns, Brazil Brazilian politician who served as president of Brazil from 2003. Born in Pernambuco state to sharecropping parents, Luiz Inácio …
25Milk strike — The milk strike (Norwegian: melkestreiken) was a strike in Nazi occupied Oslo on 8 and 9 September 1941. It led to strong reprisals from the German occupiers, in the form of martial law, court martial, mass arrests, two executions and several… …
26Trade Unions — The prefascist trade unions, whether of Catholic or Marxist inspiration, were equally the targets of systematic violence at the hands of Fascist action squads, then of outright prohibition. During the resistance, however, the Comitati di… …
27EDUCATION — Pre State 1880–1914. Education in the small yishuv, which numbered about 25,000 in 1880, largely resembled the traditional types prevailing in Jewish communities elsewhere. The Jews of East European origin maintained the traditional ḥeder, talmud …
