Word: craftsmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Picketers said yesterday they were fired because they notified the Hoaglands Monday that they were trying to join the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers, a union which does not restrict its membership to electrical craftsmen...
...Bobby Every, whose red taxi carries the bumper sticker: ISLAND TOURS, REASONABLE STORIES. Everyone has stories to tell, many about the far corners of the earth to which Sabans have voyaged as sailors. Though anecdotes, reasonable and unreasonable, are the island's main crop, fishermen, farmers and craftsmen also do well...
...squeeze is equally apparent in other countries. Shop after shop in Taxco, Mexico, the silversmithing capital of the world, has closed. Artisans and craftsmen have been idled by the exploding cost of silver and the reluctance of tourists to pay the exorbitant prices. In Paris jewelry retailer Robert Edery confesses: "People just aren't buying. We have not done any real business in months...
Williams also favors adopting the European-style apprentice system, in which young people work at relatively low wages for several years as assistants to skilled plumbers, carpenters or other craftsmen, learning their trade. Another way to help minorities onto that crucial first rung of the career ladder would be to ease or eliminate state licensing laws that keep many occupations tight and closed. Williams is appalled that "roughly 600 occupations are licensed in the U.S. In some states you need a license to be a cosmetologist or a landscaper. To become a commercial photographer in Texas, you need a negative...
...factories are busy 24 hours a day. A handcrafted Kalashnikov rifle sells for $1,700. For just under $1,000, Chicago-style tommy guns are a bargain. The preferred weapon is the Enfield; its bullets cost $1 apiece, as compared with $2.20 for a Kalashnikov round. But Dara's craftsmen will produce any weapon requested. A man polishing the barrel of a Sten gun told me: 'We will do all we can to help the Afghan people. At our factory, all mujahidin receive a 20% discount...