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Ladies & Englishmen. Such shortages are changing the look of the labor force. Houston's Ada Oil Co. is now hiring female gas-station attendants who must be at least 5 ft. 6 in. tall in order to reach windshields. And-shades of TV's Josephine the plumber-women really are going into plumbing, because male plumbers are in short supply. Chicago's Checker Cab Co. has taken on 40 wom en drivers, and Deere & Co. of Moline, Ill., has women draftsmen, engineers and office managers. With even the supply of qualified women limited, some companies are going...
...onetime Bronx plumber who became president of the A.F.L.-C.l.O., George Meany, 72, is the biggest craft union boss of them all. Yet, at a meeting of the executive council in Florida, Meany said: "We make no claim to perfection. I have always said there is discrimination in the labor movement. But we have made tremendous progress...
...dozen years after the 1922 theft, a German-born plumber named Leo Ernst, now 59, on a visit from Dayton, Ohio, to New York, went aboard a German steamship-he believes it was the Hamburg. One of the sailors told Ernst that he had some art works to sell, claimed they would be confiscated on his return to Germany, and asked $10,000 for them. Ernst offered far less, but left with the oils rolled up under...
...applicant is a Negro. The most unyielding barriers to the Negro's advancement are put up not by corporations but by the craft unions, which are so biased that it is easier for a Negro to become a physician or junior manager than an electrician or a plumber. A recent Labor Department survey showed that in Baltimore there were no Negro apprentices among the steam fitters, sheet-metal workers or plumbers; in Newark, none among the stonemasons, structural ironworkers or steam fitters; in Pittsburgh, none among the operating engineers, painters or lathers; in Washington, none among the glaziers, sheet...
...kind of situation that the medical profession might be expected to remedy, and an enterprising young French doctor finally decided to do just that. Impressed when he got near-instant service one night from a radio-dispatched plumber, he wondered why pipes should be better cared for than patients. His answer: radio-dispatched doctors as part of the "S O S" service that already was providing Paris with plumbers and other fix-it aid in response to phone calls...