Word: journeymen
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When an honest young Hamburger seeks to enter the Hamburg Guild of Journeymen Carpenters, he faces harsh Medieval tribulations, searching tests. After suitable apprenticeship he must wander about Germany, carpentering, for three years. As a full-fledged member of the Journeymen's Guild, the proud young Hamburger wears a broad, black hat, extra wide black trousers, and heavy gold earrings. He may even go to Berlin, once in five years, for a jolly convention, and there get into trouble-as a great many Hamburger Guildsmen did last week. Dishonest young Berliners-sneakthieves and bandy-legged pimps-aspire...
...ancient lore, retold tales. Enceladus, the Titan, was buried under Etna when he had dared to defy Zeus. Now and again he stirred in discomfort or anger. Hephaestus, god of fire and the metallic arts, had a smithy in Etna. He was fashioning terrible Olympian swords which his journeymen, the Cyclops, would deliver...
...famed "StoneCutters Case"-the Journeymen Stone-Cutters' Association of North America v. the U. S.-to determine the validity of court injunctions brought in conflict with union regulations...
...Right to Refuse. The Journeymen Stone Cutters' Association decided that the Bedford Cut Stone Co. (Indiana) and 23 other corporations were unfair to union labor. So the union ordered all its 5,000 members to refuse to work on stone cut by these corporations. Last week the Supreme Court reversed the decision of a lower court; ruled that the union was restraining trade in violation of the anti-trust laws, that the stone corporations were entitled to relief by injunction. Associate Justices Louis Dembitz Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes, the two great liberals of the Supreme Court, dissented vigorously...
...chosen will begin as apprentices and will gradually be promoted to foremanships on a basis of efficiency and organizing ability. Men who obtain a rating of journeymen will be eligible to take charge of gangs...