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...Last week the chiefs of seven powerful railway unions and brotherhoods (Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, Conductors, Trainmen, Switchmen, Telegraphers, Train Dispatchers, Maintenance-of-Way Men)- marched into President Hoover's office to read him a long petition of their wants. They roundly favored Alfred Emanuel Smith's foreign debt formula (a long moratorium during which each country would have deducted from its debt a percentage of the value of its imports from the U. S.). Most conservative representatives of Labor, they warned: "Unless something is done to provide employment and relieve distress we cannot be responsible for the orderly...
...Herriot, of whom it is said "he could sell the Lyonese as slaves and they would make no objection," had just finished his coffee & croissant. Clapping on his old slouch hat he rushed, baggy trousers flapping, to the landslide. Five minutes later Fire Chief Rossignol (Nightingale) arrived and Lyonese firemen attacked the ruins, working furiously to rescue entrapped persons before there should be another slide. Like a commanding general Mayor Herriot backed off, took a perspective view of the hillside, conferred with city engineers who agreed with him that a cement earth-retaining wall was about to collapse. Mayor Herriot...
Disobedient and daring, the firemen refused to quit, though they knew that in Lyon's 1930 autumn landslide 19 firemen were killed. Roared Mayor Herriot: "Get back! Back all of you!" When this had no effect, the burly Mayor rushed in and climbed to the top of the ruins, placed himself in the post of maximum danger, bellowed: "Do you all want to be killed? Messieurs, I insist that you get back...
...jobs. At the Dearborn city line their number had doubled, their quietude had yielded to aggressiveness. Fifty Dearborn police tried to turn them back. Out from the mob burst a woman, crying: "Come on, you cowards!" Police went down under a fire of bricks, stones, clubs. Firemen and Detroit police hurried to their aid with tear gas bombs and high pressure hoses. On to the factory gate pressed the mob. There it was met by two volleys of high-aimed pistol fire, forced back. As the crowd reformed, Ford's Service Chief Harry H. Bennett drove into its midst...
...Landisville, N. J., Michael Dilazzaro, bystander, criticized the technique of volunteer firemen putting out a blaze in the kitchen of a frame house. While the firemen paused to argue bitterly with Bystander Dilazzaro, the fire went out of control, burned the house down. Michael Dilazzaro was fined $8 for interfering with firemen...