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They preferred to remain joined because their affliction was their livelihood. Most Siamese twins have the same idea. When Surgeon Hippolyte Marcus Wertheim of York Hospital cut (without anesthesia) dead Lucio away from live Simplicio, he was performing the first operation of its kind on adult Siamese twins...
...Tomorrow is Labor Day. Labor Day in this country has never been a class holiday. . . . There are those who fail to read both the signs of the times and American history. They would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. It is those short-sighted ones, not Labor, who threaten this country with that class dissension which in other countries has led to dictatorship and the establishment of fear and hatred as the dominant emotions in human life...
...ghost of a Florentine monk who died in 1317 had appeared in Chicago last week, it could have pointed a spectral finger at 59 men and one woman, members of the American Academy of Optometrists, and intoned: "Your means of livelihood you owe mostly to me." In a Vienna museum stands a statue of this medieval monk, with a pair of glasses in one hand and bearing this inscription: Here lies Salvina D'Armato degli Armati of Florence, the inventor of spectacles. May God forgive his sins...
...craft, into one big union (TIME, July 20 et ante). Composed of industrial unions, C. I. O. is dedicated to extending this form of labor organization to absorb the greater part of the U. S. working class. With this objective, the 13 A. F. of L. Councilmen, whose livelihood depends on the autonomy and independence of some 100 traditional craft unions, obviously could not compromise. So the next business before the Council was to hear evidence justifying the suspension of the C. I. O. unions...
...Government. . . . What rights would the dentist be asked to surrender or what compromises would he be asked to make in return for the guaranteed income, which could be but small? . . . The members of our profession need to make no compromise with their conscience in order to gain a livelihood. .. . We need not sell out to political powers...