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Last week in Washington one Walter L. Williams, a minor clerk in the office of the U. S. Engineers, announced formation of the National Union for Collective Bargaining for Democratic Workers. Clerk Williams, who once heeled in South Philadelphia's "Little Italy," proposed to build up a regular heelers' union, with dues, locals, organizers and perhaps eventually affiliation with either the American Federation of Labor or the Committee for Industrial Organization. He was particularly incensed at the ward leaders, the only machine men who even know the precinct workers' names, and the only ones through whom they...
Famed in the California Senate for introducing bills for the exclusive benefit of his own county, San Diego's Senator Ed Fletcher was the butt of a legislative joke last week in Sacramento. To the Senate reading clerk went a bill which Senator Fletcher's colleagues had drawn up in the familiar Fletcher style. Droned the clerk in his most serious monotone: "The sum of $6,635,000.03 is hereby appropriated from the unappropriated moneys of the general fund of this State for the purpose of dredging Pee-Wee River in the county of San Diego, which river...
...action on the thin thread of a love story. The scene is Richmond, second capital of the Confederacy; from Secession Night to Appomattox. In 1861 Richmond was gay, prosperous, confident, the established capital of an established civilization. Between Mildred Wade, daughter of an aristocrat, and Brose Kirby, a clerk in her father's tobacco warehouse, was a social abyss nothing short of an earthquake could wipe out. But it was earthquake weather, and both of them felt it. Before Brose marched off to war as a private in the soon-to-be-famed First Virginia Regiment, Mildred sought...
...become such an expert on the American Indian that he amused himself compiling technical errors in the Leather Stocking Tales. He wrote a dissertation on the ethnographic significance of Marco Polo's travels. Before he was 20 he had had to work as a farmer and clerk, but by the time he came of age he had hammered his way onto the staff of the Bremen Museum...
Harry Bogen, born on the East Side, and now living with his mother in The Bronx, was a smart guy and knew it better than anybody. A brief experience as a shipping clerk in the Seventh Avenue garment district gave him his big idea. With a radical acquaintance, Tootsie Maltz, as front, he engineered a shipping clerks' strike, succeeded in tying up deliveries in the garment district. At that point Bogen organized his own delivery service, soon had a near-monopoly in the garment trade. As reward for forensic services rendered he took Tootsie in as partner...