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...wood-workers were joined by 700 seamen of the Canada Steamship Lines. They struck when the City of Montreal sailed with a non-union crew. Slated for June 3 is a strike by some 4,000 other members of the A.F.L. Canadian Seamen's Union, who want an eight-hour day. (Present working day: 12 hours.) Ready to go out also were 6,000 A.F.L. textile workers in Quebec. Only the last-minute appointment of an inquiry commissioner averted a walkout by 10,000 C.I.O. rubber workers in 14 Ontario plants for a 20?-an-hour raise...
...well as any employer and employe can when one of them is Elizabeth Arden Graham. She told him to get rid of Knockdown, a $2,000 ugly duckling, and Tom allowed he would-some day. She brought out her Ardena eye lotion for the horses' eyes, and Ardena "Eight-Hour Cream" for their chafed spots. Diplomat Tom used them; they didn't do a horse any harm...
MOSCOW--Russia's newest tanks, rocket guns and artillery were unveiled in an eight-hour parade through Red Square past the tomb of Lenin...
Lean, grey Majority Leader John W. McCormack led Administration supporters in an eight-hour floor battle to knock out the rider. When it was over, Republicans and Southern Democrats gave their answer, approved it 162-10-101. The vote was the heaviest ever cast against a proposal by Harry Truman...
Usually he worked twelve to 16 hours a day. He likes, on the basis of an eight-hour day, to brag that he has already worked 100 years for the U.P. During those 100 years, he had little time for friends or reading-beyond westerns and detective stories. He spent long weeks prowling the 10,000 miles of U.P. track, sometimes on foot. He learned literally every inch of it and, according to legend, the first names of some 10,000 U.P. workers. Hard on his employes, with a business eye he humored the slightest whims of passengers. When...