Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...machinists win elections for God, country, Four More Years, and the War Board. Their supervisor is J. Mervyn Harris the 5 ft. 3 in. politician who is the local boss in Nether Providence...
...these shop conditions don't stop the women from joking. "Yes, we have a good boss. He allows us to take coffee breaks...on our own time." Another worker lampooned her boss's attitude in the bitter haggling over two and a half cents more for a difficult zipper: "Every day the boss tells us he's going out of business...
Except for the Chinese, most of the women have been in the business for at least 20 years. They work on old machines in ancient buildings. Their greatest anticipation is travelling after retirement. The bosses are old, too--younger men are not interested in the garment trade. "Even their sons don't want it." The union seems out of touch with its members and unwilling to organize its resources to meet a changing and probably depressed future. This year's resugence in the industry has lulled the union into a confidence that business will go on as usual. Without...
...picked up a huge red pass from his boss at the Park Service that said "Total Access to All Areas" and hung it around his neck and set off toward immortality of sorts. He slipped through the crowd filing up the Inaugural stands, found his way to his old spot behind one of the fake pillars. Everything went fine until it was time for Nixon to take the oath. Suddenly, a Secret Service agent said Stoughton couldn't stand there. Get out. Stoughton, for a second, was panicky. The oath of office was about to be administered. Where...
...brotherhoods still stay in contact with him, says Kieninger, and he dispenses Stelle's secrets by mail to several thousand followers around the U.S. So far, the Stelle Group has signed up only 130 full-fledged members, mostly middle-class Midwesterners like Kieninger himself, including a construction boss, an accountant, engineers and a former Methodist missionary...