Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Omaha...
...read with interest the article concerning Eugene Stefan, the D.P., and how union men went on strike to give his job to another [TIME, Aug. 15]. Omaha, indeed, must be quite a city. No doubt the 300 strikers and Labor Leader Preble must feel rather proud of themselves for having secured the job for a "real American" instead of a foreigner...
...Omaha, a city with a "welcome stranger" past, has been good to displaced persons. When a slight, sad-eyed Yugoslav named Eugene Stefan got there this summer with his grown-up daughter Heddy, he felt that he had found a haven at last. World War II had made him a wanderer; his wife had died of hardship, his mother had died in a concentration camp and his sister had disappeared. Afterward, Tito's government had refused him the right to go home to Yugoslavia...
Stefan, a 54-year-old ornamental ironworker, was luckier than most of his fellow D.P.s: he had relatives in the U.S. His brother Martin runs a bar in Omaha and cousin Karl Stefan is a Republican Congressman from Nebraska. When he got to Omaha, brother Martin took him in and provided for him and his daughter. Last month his luck was even better-the Omaha Steel Wrorks needed an ornamental ironworker and Stefan...
...morning last week when he got to the plant gates, he discovered that a quickie strike had been called, and that more than 300 structural steelworkers and machinists were refusing to go to work. Their reason: as long as there were 3,000 jobless in Omaha, the company shouldn't go and hire a foreigner. Stefan loitered uncomprehendingly outside the plant for some time before he discovered that he was what the fuss was all about...