Confederation of German Trade Unions/reunification - Present

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    A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
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    The newly-formed clothing unions are ready to welcome her; but woman shrinks back from organization, Heaven knows why! It is perhaps because in organization one find the truest freedom, and woman has been a slave too long to know what freedom means.
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