Word: mill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lawrence was not too worried about that. The patient seemed to be feeling a little better already: the fall orders were coming in, and one big mill had started a double shift two days a week...
Lawrence had found a way to ease its labor pains a little. Instead of laying men off, the mills furloughed men in rotation. For the weeks of furlough, each worker marched over to the unemployment office and drew unemployment pay from the state. (Except for the first layoff each year, Massachusetts does not require a waiting period.) Explained Al Bradstreet, a weaver in American Woolen's Wood mill: "I'm off one week in three. When I'm off, I get $25 plus $2 for each of the three kids. Nobody wants this...
...Lawrence would disagree. Mill-owners were glad to keep their labor force intact; unions had the stagger provision written into contracts. Said Arthur Brown, area director for the C.I.O.'s Textile Workers Union: "It costs the state no more to issue three consecutive compensation checks to three different men than to issue them to the same man. And if they just lay off, not only do the people who are unemployed stop buying, but so do the ones who are employed...
They are doing a fine job. "Fender Alley," Mill Street between Winthrop and Lowell Houses, is being thoroughly worked over nightly by efficient tow-trucks and earnest tag-bearing policemen. The Elbery Garage is full of student cars waiting for their owners t reclaim them--and pay fat discouraging fees. The no parking ordinance makes fine sense for the men who own garages; the people who own cars find it tougher to understand...
Three and a half years ago, in the name of all humanity, the victors of World War II put the leaders of the vanquished on trial. In over 50 million words of testimony, the Niirnberg mill ground out the story of six million Jews murdered, millions of laborers held in near-slavery. So huge were the figures that the world could scarcely grasp them. Though Hermann Göring postured in the dock and Rudolf Hess bellowed his insane laughter, interest in the courtroom scene flagged. But last week, crowds once more flocked to the big red-roofed Palace...