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...quart, the migrants earn only $2 for their day's work. But the crew chief deducts $1.25 a day for transportation to the fields. He also overcharges them for their filthy accommodations, for their food (a concession controlled by his wife), and the 51?-a-pint payday wine that he sells for $1. As a result, at the end of the Long Island harvest, the migrant will have no choice but to bus along with the crew to the next stop: Florida. And then back to Long Island -perhaps for a lifetime of latter-day slavery...
...hours before their old contract expired. The strike was almost anticlimactic, even though it closed down 93 Ford plants in 25 states. Reuther announced the walkout shortly after midnight, then went home to nurse a case of laryngitis he had picked up in eight weeks of futile negotiations. When payday rolled around, many striking workers simply went to company parking lots, where Ford had the payroll waiting in armored trucks...
...giant (though nothing special by today's pro-football standards) in 1930, when U.S. fight promoters and their underworld bosses found him fresh from lifting weights in a European circus. As a fighter he was a joke, but fixed bouts and blaring publicity led to a payday championship match with the slipping Jack Sharkey. Incredibly, Camera won-on a lucky sixth-round knockout. He lasted only a year, until Max Baer took away his title with eleven knockdowns in eleven rounds. Camera returned to Italy penniless, his purses siphoned away by his handlers, finally settling into a clownish career...
...YOUR NOSE (Columbia). "Little" Jimmy Dickens, the country singer, has been getting some attention in the city because of the colorful malediction of his title song. The album's other lyrics, sung to interchangeable tunes, are a standard collection of complaints ("I got pockets full of troubles every payday"; "I can't get over me not gettin' over...
...shoppers come two colossally inept hoods (Jean-Claude Brialy, Albert Remy), intent on hijacking 100 million francs from the cashier's office. Straight off, they discover that they have forgotten to bring tools. Detouring to "basement hardware," they lose more time through a plumbing mishap, Santa's payday and a jammed elevator-then, none too brilliantly, bring off the heist. A couple of minutes later, they lose the cash to a teen gang that has been holding up a tiny dry goods shop down the street...