Word: craftsmen
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...wipe them out. Taxes on private business were raised sevenfold. A private tailor with one helper paid the same amount of tax as a Belgrade tailors' Communist cooperative with seven employees. It was too much for any artisan. By the end of 1962, nearly 10,000 private craftsmen closed up shop, 3,000 in Croatia alone...
...matter be attended to. Last week the Yugoslav Parliament was preparing to pass a new tax law that "will not discourage the development of crafts." The party's official mouthpiece, Belgrade's Daily Borba, offered a distinctly non-Marxian rationale for the retreat: "The law treats private craftsmen as an additional but significant economic branch which fits well in the system of socialist economy...
...I.T.U. has rejected this plan for a combination of historical and practical reasons. Since it is a craft union--one of the oldest and perhaps the proudest craft union--its members view their jobs virtually as their own property. They consider themselves highly skilled craftsmen (as, indeed, they are), not mere employees who are only important so long as their employers consider them important. The I.T.U. members want to be able to hand their jobs on to their progeny, or otherwise dispose of them as they and theirs see fit. For this same reason, they have "protected" their jobs...
...Sloane took the diary and dressed it out with verbal and graphic sketches, detailing the construction of a whole backwoods farm. Mere antiquity is not what interests him. Instead, he puts a shine and an edge on the tools of the pioneers, constantly admiring the care and skill of craftsmen who thought enough of themselves, their work, and the times they lived in to date and sign everything they made...
...There is the mistaken idea," he says in self-defense, "that if you stay on Broadway and do plays-no matter how bad-this makes you a moral, right-living man. Come to Hollywood, and this makes you a wrong-living man. All the really great artists are professional craftsmen who write everything. But there is this idea in the U.S. that there's something nasty, unsavory or immoral about doing professional craftsmanship...