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...Cleveland's Lincoln Electric Co. (arc welding) is building a new $8,500,000 plant with two miles of overhead "railroad," eliminating all manual handling of material. In mockup tests, President James F. Lincoln has found a saving of 10% in direct labor costs...
...about four feet across and just long enough to accommodate a narrow, iron-hard sleeping pallet. They do not sleep in their own coffins (as legend says Trappists once did), but the mattresses are hard as a slab in a city morgue. The 60 men are gradually learning the manual labor necessary to run a big estate. At the moment, most of them are hopelessly inept. "The supposition," laments Father Gabriel, "is that Trappists are great agriculturists. But that isn't the case here. They're all city kids." The community is fattening 200 steers, starting a large...
...last 14 years, manual laborers have been under the Harvard University Employees Representative Association, headed by Daniel G. Mulvihill...
When Grenada's powerful Mental and Manual Workers' Union called an all-island strike last week to protest against anti-strike measures before the island legislature, island authorities frantically wirelessed for help. H.M.S. Devonshire, light cruiser on a training cruise in nearby waters, landed Royal Marines. As angry plantation workers rioted and fired buildings the marines set to work to get the situation in hand...
Strait Jacket? Actually, the regulations, drastic though they sounded, were from the censorship provisions of the Army Field Manual, under which war correspondents worked during World War II. What shook newsmen was not the language, but the way Thompson's small band of inexperienced censors began interpreting it. Newsmen were told that they might no longer use the word "retreat." Retreat, it appeared, was only what the enemy did. The Eighth Army's backpedaling was all part of a plan, said security officers, therefore it should and would be called a "withdrawal"no exceptions tolerated...