Word: daggert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stocky Charlie Daggert knows how to use his fists. At 18, during World War I, he punched his way to the featherweight championship of the U.S. Navy. But, as Daggert says, he also has "a bit of Irish wit." Last week Daggert called upon that...
...Daggert, now 46, is president of a small, independent union at the Quaker City Iron Works, a Philadelphia plant engaged in secret war work. Last February the union petitioned the War labor Board for a 10% wage increase, got no action through six irritating months. Despite the pleas of Daggert, and of servicemen sent in by the Army and Navy, the 350 members of the union voted unanimously to go on "a holiday...
Three days before the strike was to begin, Daggert went to Superintendent Robert Wilson, asked him to blow the quitting horn 30 minutes early. The men & women, their overalls soggy with sweat, hurried out of the sheds into the blazing sun. Daggert climbed on top a huge buoy he had been welding, stuttered a bit, then began booming in the voice he had used to referee many a Philadelphia fight...