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Republican "Cy" Ching has had a good look at labor-management troubles from at least three different positions: labor, management, government. A native of Prince Edward Island, he started out in Boston as a streetcar motorman, got his law degree at night school. He soon hopped over to the other side of the fence. In 1919 he became labor expert for U.S. Rubber Co., ten years later took over as the company's director of labor relations. As a onetime member of NRA, the National Defense Mediation Board, the old NWLB, he knows bureau procedure. His formula, which thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Firing Line | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...world, weary and disillusioned, is sweeping half-measures from the political field . . . forming up clearly on the Right or on the Left." Salazar's own policies have encouraged both the disillusionment and the drift to the Right and Left extremes. Last month in Lisbon an old streetcar motorman, who earns $30 a month after 25 years' service, summed it up: "I ask only for the minimum to enable me and my family to live. Salazar gives us only the right to die. . . . Yes, I belong to the Anti-Fascist Unity Council ... I can't tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: How Bad Is the Best? | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

Winged Victory. In Ottawa, Trolley Motorman George Boulay won a bingo game. Prize: 592 trolley tickets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...Line. In Baltimore, Trolley Motorwoman Helen C. Matterson sued her motorman husband for divorce after she found him, she said, at a rendezvous with Motorwoman Helen Tafe-in a streetcar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...whole atmosphere is wrong," said Motorman Wilson. "This is a most unreasonable strike. I see no reason why we should be singled out for this blockade. Should anyone else attempt such a procedure . . . they would immediately be charged with a conspiracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Tension & Action | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

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