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...forgotten day in May 1882 when Peter J. McGuire, the energetic president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and a leader in the Knights of Labor, first publicly proposed that a holiday be set aside to give special honor to the "industrial spirit" of American workers. McGuire thought that the day should be halfway between Independence Day and Thanksgiving, so that it could be celebrated in pleasant weather. Thus on Sept. 5, 1882, 10,000 workingmen risked dismissal from their jobs by marching to Union Square in Manhattan. According to a contemporary account in Frank Leslie...
...better part of the last four years, staying up very late at night helping to produce and print the paper, which makes no sense on one level (a career in galley-proofing?) but perfect sense on another (what else should I do? Sleep? And where else is excitement, weariness, brotherhood bound up so tightly as by a clattering press run at 4 a.m.?) And, too, I've devoted more than one dinner to defending the paper against its sizeable horde of detractors. Yes, I agree-it is self-important, And it is a club. And it's also produced eight...
Many relatively small unions managed to wring average first-year wage increases of 7% or more from their employers. But the two biggest unions in the study were far more accommodating. Both the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Ford Motor Co. members of the United Auto Workers agreed to forgo any wage increases in order to help hold down costs and prevent further layoffs in their recession-squeezed industries. With 335 major wage contracts covering 1.4 million unionized workers coming up for negotiation in the current quarter, a continuation of the wage restraint would be the best evidence that...
...poison gas, and airplanes now down a generation of young men, some of them physicists. Their elders, frustrated generals like the institute's director, doodle pictures of ladders and balloons on scraps of paper, proposals to link the institutes to the front. As Jakob speaks of harmony and international brotherhood, he is hooted out of a lecture hall, seemingly by "the stone Bismarck." He commits suicide...
Hama is well known as a bastion of the Muslim Brotherhood, a militant Islamic organization that is dedicated to overthrowing Assad. Still, the government was hardly prepared for the ferocious rebellion that was touched off when security forces swept through the city looking for rebel hideouts. Brotherhood leaders suddenly decided to settle old scores with the ruling Baath Party, killing a number of party officials. Then they used the loudspeakers atop the city's minarets to call for an insurrection...