Word: helper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Descended from Yaqui Indians, Spaniards and Polish Jews, Huerta is everything but a soldier. Whatsoever things are practical, he thinks on those things. Then there is General Calles, head of the cabinet. A dreamer, a radical, once a school teacher, he has lived for "land and freedom." An unofficial helper has been Morones, labor leader. He wears check suits, silk shirts, and a heavy revolver; and from his one good eye watches the machinations of foreign capitalists...
...jump to the conclusion that they are very much on the same basis, but this is not true, or at least the workingman does not consider that it is so. A 'pair-heater' on a furnace in a rolling mill may get only a little more than his helper but, in the eyes of the workingman, his position is vastly more desirable. Among the workers in a plant there are a thousand variations in pay, skill and privileges, emoluments that represent an almost infinite number of standings. These are vastly more important, in the opinion of the workingman, than...