Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Andreev ordered Red railwaymen throughout the Union to "stop writing uselessly long reports," announced that Red railway executives will hereafter devote at least one third of their time to outdoor railway work. He decreed that within five days 25% of all railway office workers must be transferred to "permanent manual field work": cleaning locomotives, sweeping platforms, greasing cars, working switches...
Hubbard II is at one with his father's beliefs on manual work and a life close to nature, but he does not devote his whole time to it. Reforestation is his hobby. He conducts a nursery on a 75-acre farm unconnected with the Roycrofters. Except for the printing and binding shops Roycrofters are not so multitalented as they once were. The Turkish Corner passed on with Queen Victoria; modern decorations do not include many brass or bronze ornaments. But the presses, turning out mostly reprints of the Founder's works, have withstood a fair test...
...Experiment. A call for Saxons to work in "labor platoons" was sounded by the Government. The work offered, it was clearly stated, would be hard, manual. Dikes would be built along two small Saxon rivers whose chronic tendency is to overflow. No labor-saving devices would be used, labor being the project's main object. Each platoonsman would receive a wage of 50 pfennigs (12?) per day, could eat as much as he liked thrice daily, must sleep in labor platoon barracks, seeing his family only on weekends...
...South Hadley, Mass. (TIME, Sept. 14). The Service recommended that "an organized effort" be made to discourage business men and public officials from setting college education as criteria for employment. Instead of the present "overemphasis on purely intellectual occupations," let there be a "saner appreciation of the dignity of manual labor and other practical work." Universities should not lower their standards in order to maintain present enrolments...
...Jersey's Governor Morgan Foster Larson did manual labor when he journeyed to Kearny, drove the first rivet in a new Grace Line ship. This was the second step in an ambitious building program of this prosperous, family-owned company. Four ships will be built, $17,000,000 spent, employment given...