Word: foremen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gesture, which sent some 210,000 miners back to work after four weeks of idleness and a 13,000,000-ton loss of coal production, was made with a fitting air of preoccupied charity. He simply told his United Mine Workers that demands for recognition of their foremen's union-basis of the strike-would be postponed to "a later, more appropriate date." The public was informed, not by Lewis, but by a "spokesman," who explained with a straight face that the action was "obviously . . . taken in the public interest...
...National Labor Relations Board, in a decision involving the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., will rule on recognition of the foremen's union, may well give Lewis as much by edict as he could gain by strike...
...order does not include officers. But it brings the Red Army's top age level for privates and noncommissioned officers down to 32. Chief benefit to Russia (and probably the prime reason): farms and factories, starved for qualified man-&-woman-power during the war, will recruit millions of foremen, technicians and reasonably adept laborers for the new piatiletka (FiveYear Plan) recently announced by Stalin...
...minute he finished his last searchlight, he walked a few hundred yards to the final washer assembly and was back at peacetime work. The whole 160,000-man G.E. organization from president to foremen to typists had pointed for this moment. Like other key men, Emil had to be reconverted before most of the 32 other U.S. appliance manufacturers got going, and before the customers beat down the doors...
...staff meeting of key officers was held before every movement of the President over our lines, and approximately 20 key supervisors were assigned to various key locations in case of any difficulties. Specially selected coal was used; supervisors, master carpenters, bridge inspectors, track foremen and trackwalkers covered the entire right-of-way to examine all bridges and all track conditions; highway crossings which normally were unprotected at night were given special protection to guard against automobiles striking the train...