Word: brotherhoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arbitration. At hearings in Chicago during May and June some amazing figures came out: under McNear's "day's work for a day's pay," T.P. & W.'s wage bill in April was $18,478. The Office of Defense Transportation figured out that under Brotherhood rules the bill would have been $56,711. Badly jolted by this noncooperative ODT attitude, the Brotherhoods finally said their wage bill would have been $31,000 (still 70% over McNear's figure). The Government-appointed arbitrator hastily called a two-week recess "so the boys can get their signals...
...grazing tribe of some 100,000, whose poor homeland of sand, scrub jungles and marshes has made them perverse. They are Moslems, but they build their mosques facing away from Mecca and orthodox Moslems call them Lurs (the Unholy). Some 8,000 Hurs, the Lurs, are joined in blood brotherhood in fanatic support of Pir of Pagaro, whom they regard as God. They dress in green, salute each other by folding their arms on their chests, have nothing to do with anyone outside the tribe. They fight on camels, ponies and bicycles, using guns, hatchets, swords and spears...
Revolution of '48. Among the first to prick this Raphael bubble were seven young men who banded together in 1848 as "The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood," to defy academism by returning for inspiration to the freshness of Botticelli, Mantegna and other predecessors of Raphael. In art they left nothing rugged, but they did succeed in rolling up a mighty snowball of Raphael-belittlement. Even Academicians like John Ruskin agreed that Raphael's Madonnas bore no resemblance to the Jewish Mary. Manet said crudely: "Raphael turns my stomach." In the 20th Century Stark Young, standing in the solemn little chapel...
...Proposition. To the Brotherhoods' demands for wage boosts, McNear counter-proposed "a day's work for a day's pay." In cash per envelope, this meant more pay, not less. Engineers would get $13.44 a day v. $11.57 under Brotherhood rules, firemen $10.41 v. $9.46, etc. But because idle "standby" workers would be eliminated, it meant fewer jobs. McNear ran his road with 55 crewmen a day at the very time the Brotherhoods were insisting it took...
Last December, 105 engineers and train-men struck. Amid riots, shootings, burnings, loss of business, McNear tried to break the strike, ran a big help-wanted ad, got 1,000 applicants within a few days. He even got an injunction. Three Brotherhood men were convicted of conspiring to blow up one of T. P. & W.'s biggest bridges. When Government agencies told McNear to arbitrate, he refused, on the ground that the mediation boards were grossly prolabor...