Word: foremans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Syke Mill. The first Oldroyd is murdered by his workmen in 1812 for setting up weaving frames. His son Will marries the sister of one of the murderers. Will's legitimate son Brigg and his bastard son Jonathan quarrel over workers' rights. Brigg marries the daughter of a foreman. Their son, young Brigg, despises his mother a little, courts his cousin Jane, loses her to another foreman, marries into the county peerage. With Young Brigg, the Oldroyd blood begins to thin out. Francis, his son, marries Jane's daughter, finds Syke Mill drifting into ruin after the War. There...
...brought up on an Oregon farm, worked his way through high school as a printer's devil, studied at Commonwealth from 1924 to 1929. Director Koch studied economics at the University of Wisconsin, became an instructor in Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn's Experimental College. Blond, square-faced, heavyset, he is foreman of the college carpentry crew. He likes to shout labor speeches, sing labor songs, play Beethoven on Commonwealth's portable phonograph. Last spring Director Koch took four commoners to Kentucky's Harlan and Bell Counties to distribute food & clothing, make speeches on the Bill of Rights. They were beaten, ejected...
...enough to split fish. Then he became a skinner, ripping the parchment-like skin from dried fish. The skin is used largely for glue (in Gloucester is Le Page's odoriferous factory) and tearing it from the fish is a delicate job. At 22 Tom Carroll was made foreman of this department and, seven years later, a member of the firm. He distinguished himself by his handling of labor problems, especially in the general strike of 1902 (Gloucester's first) and the 1918 strike of the fishermen against their captains...
...construction, operation and maintenance. His railroad career covers 46 years. It began just one year after Canadian Pacific spanned Canada, when he became a machinist's apprentice on Southeastern Railroad, which was later absorbed by CPR. In 1901 he was sent west from New Brunswick to be locomotive foreman for CPR at Cranbrook in southeastern British Columbia. Only two years later he was in muddy Calgary as master mechanic of the western division. In 1904 he was moved east to sprawling, plain-surrounded Winnipeg as superintendent of CPR's locomotive shops there which serve all its Western lines...
Most important of all to the success of the demonstration was one Charles Shep herd Hutson. Los Angeles lithographer and grand jury foreman. His duty it was to stand back on the platform and hold up a series of numbered placards, to signal for the band, the lights, the balloons, the organ, etc., etc. as they had been carefully scheduled to sustain a half-hour "demonstration." When he held up the placard numbered "1" and blew a whistle, the band, poised at an exit with Governor Rolph at its head, marched on the floor. Organized pandemonium broke loose...