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...trap the ever-changing image of war, the three illustrated papers dispatched a mere handful of men-some 30 in all from beginning to end, and never more than a dozen at any one time. The rewards were low-about $5 to $25 per sketch for piecework-and the risks were high. One chill night, Harper's Artist Theodore R. Davis, sharing his threadbare blanket with a Union soldier, waked at dawn to find his bedfellow dead beside him. "It was plain.'' wrote Davis afterward, ''that but for the intervention of his head the bullet...
...raise, grain trimmers' Local 1268 of the rugged International Longshoremen's Association marched out on an angry strike that stopped all grain exports from the world's biggest port. The shippers answered with a counterdemand: that the trimmers abandon their 30-year-old system of piecework pay, instead accept regular longshoremen's wages of $3.12 an hour, as they do at all other U.S. ports. The New York trimmers now get $14 and up for every 1,000 bushels of grain that are loaded-trimmed...
...Piecework. In Phoenix, Ariz., annoyed at watermelon-patch pilfering, a farmer posted a hired hand and himself on each side of his patch, waited with shotguns, gave each thief who showed up the alternative of settling out of court for $10 or going to jail, collected as much as $150 in one night...
...voluntary. For the first time nylon stockings and suede shoes are within reach of peasant girls and boys who, without being enthusiastic about Kadar, say they are now "almost as well off as they were under the rule of the Esterhazys." Among white-collar workers there is widespread unemployment. Piecework, introduced into the factories, is being used as a method of selective coercion to break what is left of the Workers' Councils...
...harlot's cry from street to street shall weave old England's winding sheet," Pearl takes a dry delight in proposing that the "unfortunates," the "soiled doves," not only had a better time of it than their virtuous sisters sweating in domestic slavery or the nightmare of piecework needlework, but were better people in some ways than the severely swathed ladies and broadcloth gentlemen who regarded them as a "social evil...