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...monotone, illegal money is available for the asking; sometimes, in fact, a cop does not even have to ask. Stores, bars and restaurants hand out free food, drink and cash to the cop on the beat. In order to avoid receiving summonses for petty violations, foremen on construction sites pay $5 to $10 per cop per week. When the city marshal evicts tenants, he ordinarily treats the patrolman who assists him to a few bucks. The cop who makes the day's assignments in the station house may get $5 a day from a patrolman looking for profitable work...
Most Americans must work nearly seven years for the same employer be fore they can claim as much as three weeks' vacation. All French workers, from office boys to factory foremen, are given four weeks' vacation starting with their first year on the job. Many Frenchmen take holidays of up to seven weeks. Rather than try to stagger vacations and cut down production, most French plants let their employees off in August and close for the month. In Sweden, workers are still better off; every employee in the country is guaranteed a month's vacation...
Slow Motion. With such supervisors in charge, the building proceeded at a sluggish pace. One spot check of the building at 8 a.m. lasted 90 minutes and turned up not a single Local 210 laborer at work. Bateson foremen searched the building site in vain for certain workers whose time cards showed that they were on the job. The mystery was somewhat cleared up when FBI agents investigating another case discovered that many of the workers often wandered far away from the building site, tending their more lucrative bookmaking and loan-sharking activities. Pilferage was so widespread that Bateson officials...
...sharply tailored suits, pointed-toe shoes, dark glasses and pinkie ring, Cammillieri was an unlikely looking straw boss for an office building construction gang. But his effect on the work force was immediate and far-reaching. For $7.10 an hour, Cammillieri did with one memo what Bateson foremen had tried to do for two years: he got the laborers to work...
...verdict that many Detroiters applauded, the jury unanimously found Johnson not guilty by reason of insanity. As a result, he was committed to a mental hospital last week. Meanwhile at the axle plant, fights and general unrest have mounted ever since the murders. The foremen no longer wear white shirts...