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...Bunker Hill Co.'s lead and zinc processing plant, where 80% of Kellogg's breadwinners earn their livelihood, has been shut by a strike since last May. More than 2,000 wage earners are out of work; the town is going broke, its population bleeding away to find other jobs elsewhere. On the brink of winter last week, negotiations for a settlement came to an abrupt, bitter halt...
...Common Sense. Kellogg and Bunker Hill had few labor difficulties until 1958. Then a depression in the lead and zinc industry forced Bunker Hill, the nation's second largest lead producer (first: St. Joseph Lead Co.), to cut its work force in Kellogg-the first time management had had to exercise the layoff clauses in the contract with the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers' Union. When the contract expired May 6, 1959, a deadlock ensued over job security, grievance procedures, seniority, safety regulations and shift schedules...
...Friday, April 13, 1945. the Russians were in Berlin; the center of the city was aflame. Hitler, a physical ruin, still looked for a miracle, and now Goebbels called the Führer in his deep bunker to tell him the miracle had happened: "My Führer, I congratulate you! Roosevelt is dead! It is written in the stars...
...this point, Harriet Bunker's activities had neatly paralleled the fictional behavior of Emma Atkins, wife of the hero of The Ugly American, who taught the natives of the imaginary Asian village of Chang 'Dong to manufacture long-handled brooms using local reeds, and for her good deed was honored with a village shrine. But Harriet Bunker's housewifely crusade received real support from high quarters...
...Another Thing. To get a national reform rolling, Nehru urged states and municipalities to supply long-handled brooms to their sweepers, even if the tradition-bound sweepers might in some instances object. Then he went Harriet Bunker one better: besides cleaning India's streets, untouchables must also empty India's privies, carrying away the night soil uncovered in open wheelbarrows or loosely woven baskets or pans borne, coolie-fashion, on the head. Such a practice, said Nehru, is a "disgusting sight. Every sweeper should be given a proper container with...