Word: craneman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knock a wall down the way Big Jim Allit can. Big Jim, a fat-cheeked Irishman, has been a demolition craneman for 27 years. His specialty is battering buildings apart with a 2,800-lb. steel ball. The ball swings from a cable at the end of a 100-ft. boom, and Big Jim, by deftly whirling his crane cab and boom, can send the ball crashing into a target with bull's-eye accuracy. Many a major Eastern wrecking project has had an Allit touch...
That was too much for Pittsburgh Local No. 905 of the A.F.L.'s Union of Operating Engineers. Last week it peremptorily ordered Lipsett, Inc. to take Big Jim, a good union man himself, off the job and replace him with a Pittsburgh craneman. Cried Local President P. Wharton: "He had too much publicity. The [newspaper] story focused attention on him and the fact that he was from New York. It also called him an expert. We've got 2,010 members in our union, and they're all experts. We just had to show him he wasn...
George Heller was a first-rate craneman. The workers elected him to serve their interests when the Employee Representation Plan went into effect. As long as the demands were peripheral-more showers, new lockers, better air-the management came through generously. But when Heller's electors hurried him into asking about wore pay, Sayers said, "I'm afraid you boys don't see the problem whole." George became sullen and remote; his work began to go sour. His own fireman called him a company man. When he asked about resigning from the Employee Plan, his superintendent said...
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