Word: foremen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large heaps of earth which were used as breastworks in the recent seige of the University in the partition of Cambridge battle will be removed when the work of laying the pipes for the increased electrical load is completed. This will not be in the near future, foremen said...
...Committee but a Federal grand jury at Albuquerque, N. M. exposed the hottest WPA political scandal of the year. It indicted 73 people for using WPA as a political machine, giving work-relief preference to obedient voters, exacting political contributions from WPAsters by threats and intimidation, organizing WPA foremen and timekeepers into vote-compelling "social clubs," taking WPAsters off their work to pack a political parade and then falsifying the rolls to make it seem they had been working...
...Workers in aviation manufacture get 37? an hour as apprentices, as much as $350 monthly as foremen. Aircraft maintenance mechanics get 40? to 80? an hour, are required to be certified by the U. S. Government...
...WPAsters in Russell and Pulaski Counties had been carefully checked over as to their political affiliations by their foremen...
...Goodrich, Firestone and General rubber companies were out of work. Like their C. I. O. brothers in Michigan, members of the United Rubber Workers of America complain that they are getting the short end of retrenchment. Young, levelheaded U. R. W. President Sherman Dalrymple accuses the companies of demoting foremen and other supervisors to production lines, letting out union men who otherwise would hold their jobs by seniority...