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Driving a dilapidated truck one day last summer, Negro Riley Tennyson remarked to the owner, a New York City roofing contractor named Isadore Rauch: ''You better have those brakes fixed or you'll be getting into trouble," Contractor Rauch replied that he could not afford to. Last August, Contractor Rauch ordered Negro Louis Washington to make a delivery in the truck. Driver Washington lost control of it in Jamaica, could not stop until after he had run down and killed Mrs. Katherine Brown, a 57-year-old Negro...
Many a reported labor shortage can be traced to local factors such as a big job in a small town or refusal to work for an unpopular contractor. The tightly organized labor unions vociferously deny a shortage, current or threatened, it being obviously to their immediate advantage to have contractors competing for labor. And the locals in the main are against indenturing apprentices. Wages for common labor in the building trades are already above 1929 levels, while skilled labor on the average is near the old highs. The rise has actually been greater than apparent because building mechanics in Depression...
...first place that John Jeremiah Pelley got to was Anna, Ill., where his father, an Irish immigrant, had settled as a contractor after a stretch in the Confederate Army. Son John hustled baggage in Anna's Illinois Central depot during summer vacations, taught school when he was 18, spent a few months at the University of Illinois in 1899. The summers in the Anna depot destined John Pelley for railroading. Only twice has he remained in one railroad job as long as five years-once as an I. C. superintendent in Fulton, Ky., and once as president...
...Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's Electoral College (president, Mathew H. McCloskey Jr., Philadelphia contractor) heard Governor George H. Earle declare that all this electoral nonsense was out of date, just like state's Rights. For Roosevelt & Garner, 36 gilt-edged cards in a green glass...
Typist Up. Tall, slim, magnetic, Will Clayton was born 56 years ago on a cotton farm near Tupelo, Miss. His father was a railroad contractor. Son Will left school after the eighth grade, studied shorthand. One of his first customers was William Jennings Bryan, who made him retype a speech because the margins were too narrow. At 15 his astonishing stenographic skill landed him a job in a St. Louis cotton firm. Soon he went to Manhattan as secretary to a cotton man named Lamar Fleming, father of his brilliant young partner. Will Clayton was a model youth. He never...