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...years later, and plunged into the relentless experimentation that marked him as one of the most liberal and scientific minds of the Age of Enlightenment. This is the 200th anniversary of the year when his cream-colored earthenware so impressed Queen Charlotte I that she made Wedgwood her court potter and ordered that pearly pottery be called Queen's Ware. The works were fit even for an empress, and Catherine the Great of Russia ordered a Queen's Ware dinner and dessert service of 952 pieces in what was Wedgwood's largest commission...
Conscience in Clay. The potter also became a pioneer of the industrial revolution. He built a model town for his 650 workers, named it Etruria for the ancient state in Italy whose rediscovered pottery helped spark the classical revival. He divided labor into a crude assembly line, carved a 93-mile canal to avoid overland transport of his fragile ware by horse, backed Inventors James Watt and Matthew Boulton, and installed one of their first industrial steam engines. His own invention, a pyrometer for measuring extremely high temperatures, helped to win him admission to the Royal Society...
...potter of uncommon conscience, Wedgwood supported both the French and American Revolutions, though he well knew that they would hurt his business. An ardent antislaver, Wedgwood sent Ben Franklin his historic medallion showing a chained Negro pleading, "Am I not a man and a brother?" And he became Evolutionist Charles Darwin's grandfather. At Josiah Wedgwood's burial place in the Stoke-on-Trent church, his epitaph reads: he "converted a rude and inconsiderable manufactory into an elegant art and an important part of national commerce." More than that, he annealed common clay with an uncommon love...
...tactic? Yes, said the NLRB, because the lockout forced the unions to abandon their wage demands. Moreover, it was so timed that it nullified the unions' strike power during the company's most vulnerable period. The court sharply disagreed. The company showed no antiunion bias, said Justice Potter Stewart for the unanimous bench. Rather, it legally used the "bargaining lockout" as a corollary of the "bargaining strike." Lockouts may disrupt strike plans, but the right to strike does not include "the right exclusively to determine the timing and duration of all work stoppages. The right to strike...
...defendant shall be deemed sufficient evidence to authorize his conviction." Last week that law came before the Supreme Court in the case of Jackie Gainey, a Georgia moonshiner who had been nabbed near a still. Upholding the law 8 to 1, the court, in a majority opinion by Justice Potter Stewart noted that moonshiners are "notorious for the deftness with which they locate arcane spots for plying their trade." Because strangers "rarely penetrate the curtain of secrecy," it is reasonable to assume that anyone around a still is in on the secret...