Word: helper
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...Railway Conductors and Brakemen (20,000). Named the Conductors' Brotherhood at its founding in 1868, the union added Brakemen to its handle only a decade ago. The current president is Louis J. Wagner, 66, who got started in railroading in his teens as a station agent's helper. In addition to taking tickets, conductors act as straw bosses while the train is on the road. They are supposed to see that other crewmen are on the job, and that the train moves smoothly enough to avoid discomfort to passengers or damage to freight. Brakemen used to be train...
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (190,000). Biggest by far of the operating unions, it was founded as the Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen in 1883 by eight railroaders meeting in an Albany & Susquehanna caboose at Oneonta, N.Y. Brotherhood President Charles Luna, 56, began his rail career as a construction helper on the Santa Fe in Texas. The word "trainmen" does not apply to a particular job; it is a generic term that covers both conductors and brakemen. In general, the members of Luna's union tend to be men with less seniority than the members of the older, more exclusive...
...profits of the barbers, blacksmiths, pastrymakers, cobblers and tailors began to get out of hand; they bought cars and rented summer homes on fashionable lakesides. Last May Tito's regime decided to wipe them out. Taxes on private business were raised sevenfold. A private tailor with one helper paid the same amount of tax as a Belgrade tailors' Communist cooperative with seven employees. It was too much for any artisan. By the end of 1962, nearly 10,000 private craftsmen closed up shop, 3,000 in Croatia alone...
...Harvester engineer in Milwaukee: "If you want to repair a machine, an electrician has to come and shut off the switch, a millwright loosens the nuts and bolts, a machine repairman will remove the pulley, the millwright removes the motor. Many times they won't work without a helper, even though there is nothing for him to do. WTe had to close many shops. Some men who weren't even skilled work ers were making $5.50 an hour...
...Helper of Many." Religious life for women has a long tradition in the Christian church. The Apostle Paul, in a letter to the Christians of Rome, commended "our sister Phoebe, a deaconess of the church at Cenchreae . . . for she has been a helper of many and of myself as well." Out of that beginning grew orders of deaconesses for service and of conventual nuns for contemplation. The great Protestant reformers of the 16th century rejected the ascetic ideal of post-Renaissance convents; serious thought of establishing some form of Protestant sisterhood is scarcely 150 years...