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...workers settling down for another evening in front of the telly were roused by a clangorous racket. Peering into the almost-deserted, cement-paved play area of Boyce Way, they made out a brown-robed, sturdily striding figure swinging a schoolbell and shouting: "Come to the play on a cart...
Coaxed outside by a squad of doorbell pushers, some four dozen of the flat-dwelling workers, wives and children watched in a light drizzle as a team of men and women hauled a sizable rubber-tired cart into position at one end of the playground. Quickly the cart pullers-parishioners of nearby St. Philip's Church-set up three canvas walls (painted to resemble an East End living room) on the rough-planked cart, tapped a nearby flat for electricity to operate the homemade floodlights. Then the bell swinger-Father Oswald, Anglican priest in charge of St. Philip...
East Enders grouped in front of the cart or watching diffidently from their doorways spattered applause throughout the half-hour play, guffawed occasionally at the dock-flavored cockney. Two white-haired women joined in the responses when the family in the play took Communion with the vicar, and the rest of the audience nodded approvingly as points were hammered home...
...Consolidated Western Steel Division, asked it to stretch a huge cable-and-bucket rig from the caves to the canyon's south rim, where the guano could be trucked to market. Specifications: the cable must be strong enough to withstand 100-m.p.h. gales, the bucket big enough to cart 3,500 lbs. of guano in one scoop...
...nation -the men who pay their $2-to-$6 monthly dues-are content to keep their eyes on the road and not on union affairs. They roll into the city platforms to unload produce and furniture, autos and chickens. They drive cabs, deliver flowers, department-store merchandise and groceries, cart off garbage. They are strong and competent. But as Teamsters, they are either uninformed, indifferent or scared...