Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brewery Workers Union, a dormant allied organization which woke up when beer came back, was ready to quit the Federation when it found that its teamsters, engineers and firemen were about to be handed over to the jurisdiction of A. F. of L. teamsters', engineers' and firemen's unions. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers, a strong independent organization with 130,000 members, was ready to add its numbers to the A. F. of L. But there was a hitch. A. F. of L.'s United Garment Workers demanded that Amalgamated unionists stitch no men's clothes...
Laxity! Inefficiency! With one disgruntled voice, metal workers, shoeworkers, firemen & oilers, painters, paperhangers, electric railway employes, upholsterers and stage hands demanded that all $3,300,000,000 of the Federal Public Works fund be spent and spent at once. They truculently resolved "that this convention appeal to the President for the removal of those public officials . . . who either through their laxity or their inefficiency are responsible for much of the present unemployment . . . unless those now in charge show their willingness to carry out the intent of Congress!" Secretary of the Interior Ickes, chief target of this shot, replied sharply...
...Adams Wood and Coal Co. at 277 Beacon Street, Somerville yesterday afternoon emitted dense clouds of smoke which attracted scores of Harvard students to the scene of the blaze and so interested the Business School professors that several classes were summarily dismissed. Several of the students assisted the firemen in handling the many hose lines used by engines from four cities...
...fire started by sparks thrown off by a circular saw which ignited a heap of kindling and then spread rapidly through the wood and coal sheds. Firemen were engaged in fighting the blaze for more than two hours...
...dump of Lynn, Mass, spent an unhappy week, their second unhappy week since the cool September nights began. Upon them, even when it was not raining, had descended tons and tons of water. Then came gases, liquid chemicals. Now came fire. The dump was surrounded and assaulted by blueshirted firemen, bent not on putting the fire out but on spreading it. Soon the dump became a truly impossible place to live in and a great many prudent roaches and rats began moving out, to take up safer quarters in the town. The human residents of Lynn found this exasperating...