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...telephone workers mostly wanted higher wages. A year ago, just half an hour before a strike deadline, they had accepted a $5-to $8-a-week boost. They wanted a $12-a-week boost across the board. There were a number of other issues which were not as hot but just as hotly argued. One of them was the demand for a union shop...
Sixty-five-year-old Roy Cullen started life as a $3-a-week underling in the office of a San Antonio cotton broker. In 1911, he switched to real estate and then...
...sixth of seven children, was born in Crookston, Minn., in 1905. Joe played football at high school, worked as a farmhand and went to Antioch College. He topped off his education at the University of Minnesota and got a job on the Minneapolis Journal as a $15-a-week reporter...
...remember the time when they upended the assistant managing editor and spanked him. They especially remember Joe rushing up with one ham-hand raised, a revolutionist's look in his eye, to strike a blow against authority. He met and married bustling Betty Robbins, who was a $15-a-week librarian in the Journal morgue. They quit the paper and Joe went freelancing...
Kennedy still draws only $100-a-week salary. The milk drivers, who own their own trucks (jeeps proved too small), take care of their own overhead and get a commission of 5^ a quart. Some net $180 a week; the average: $100 a week...