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Detroit is casual, rough-&-ready, informal-a city of bright neckties and T-shirts, bowling alleys, towering commercial hotels, overstuffed clubs buzzing with shoptalk and big deals. It is a city of salesmen, technicians and craftsmen, mechanics and makers of chemicals, furnaces, tools, dies and household appliances. Almost half of its employed population are the 320,000 workers who perform the automaton labor of the auto plants. They speak to the world through such trumpet-voiced agents as red-haired Walter Reuther-and speak so loud they are now among the best-paid workers in the world...
Class lines are changing, the Socialist document said. In the 19th Century Socialism was a "wage earners' " movement. Today it appeals more to professional and clerical workers, farmers, fishermen, craftsmen, retailers, artists and scientists. Socialism is not even "inevitable," as Marx maintained; it is "only one of the choices open...
Britain's butchers carve the tiny weekly meat ration with surgeonlike skill; a slip of a fraction of an inch, and the legal eightpennyworth is exceeded. The Ministry of Food sometimes tests these craftsmen, and last week its testing methods came under fire...
...will to better his fellow producer in making anything out of any material, caused the craftsmen to turn out objects such as paper mache chairs and pianos...
...Craftsmen. In Greensboro, N.C., a laundry proudly posted a notice in its window: "We don't mangle your clothes with machinery-we do it carefully by hand...