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...labor, Addie Wyatt, women's affairs director of the 550,000 member Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, fought successfully to eliminate wage differentials between men and women workers...
...started at 17, putting lids on cans of stew at Armour and Co., where she joined the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen. In 1954 she became the first woman president of a packinghouse local; later she was appointed one of the meat cutters' five international representatives, and in 1974 director of its new Women's Department. The same year she was elected vice president of the new Coalition of Labor Union Women. She has persuaded the industry to promote women to more demanding, previously "male" jobs and convinced many skeptical women that they could perform them. Now, notes Wyatt...
...27th birthday and Ernie Holmes, defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers, was picking up the meat for his party. Not at the supermarket or butcher's, though. Holmes was personally slaughtering a calf at his father's farm outside Houston. "I gave him a forearm lift," says Holmes, describing his barnyard battle with the beast. "That knocked him into the fence Then I put a full nelson on him." Finally Holmes dropped the animal with a high-powered rifle. "Forty-five minutes later," he says, "we had the calf skinned and dried...
...social democracy in Spain and elsewhere. His initial fame arose from his part in the 1921 war against tribesmen in Spanish Morocco. In 1934 the rightist Spanish government called on him to suppress an insurrection of miner's in northern Spain; his bloody tactics earned him the title "butcher of Asturias...
...shared a home with her widowed mother, who is now 73. Last spring they gave up their cluttered apartment in Boston's Back Bay and moved to a six-room house in suburban Weston. Sarah has an office containing shelves of records, tapes and books and a butcher-board worktable. The closets full of dresses bearing such labels as Thea Porter of London indicate that Caldwell is more concerned about her looks than seems apparent. Her mother's meals are brought to her from a restaurant, often by a member of Caldwell's staff...