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...Histadrut, the large labor federation, demonstrated outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem. Said Yeruham Meshel, the organization's secretary-general: "This government is indifferent to the public's mood." Other critics demanded the resignation of Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz, often called Yigal the Printer for his willingness to issue new currency to keep up with inflation. Seeing the Begin government thrown on the defensive, the opposition decided to strike...
...more holistic than thou, the reason was that he believed passionately in his power to relate all things. His own experience was wide. He grew up with the sun, sea and wildlife of Long Island and the muddy streets and busy docks of Brooklyn. Whitman the urbanite was a printer, newsp perman, editor, publisher, teacher, building contractor and real estate speculator. In 1840 this solitary singer even stumped for the election of Martin Van Buren...
...reason for the animosity may have been that the West Indians often found jobs more easily, since many were skilled printers, cabinetmakers or other tradesmen. While most Cambridgeport Blacks worked in Boston hotels, restaurants, or homes as domestic servants, Johnson--and others like him--found higher-paying work. Even for them, though, race made job-hunting difficult. "The first time I saw an ad for a printer and got all dressed up and went down," Johnson recalls. "The men were looking at me strangely. They must have thought I was applying to be a dishwasher. 'We have nothing today...
When Johnson, trained at the Barbados Advocate,finally found work as a printer, it was at the George H. Ellis Co. "At first, I got $25 a week, and eventually that got raised to $40. Everybody said I was very successful, so I was walking around with my chest puffed out, so to speak," he said...
...eleven the news was devastating. "It was just the last straw," says Phyllis Whitenight. Both she and her husband Leonard, a printer, had chromosome abnormalities. In 1975 she lost a breast to cancer. Their son, Kevin, 10, has had unexplained stomach problems. Their daughter, Debbie, 26, was plagued as a child by rashes on her legs and throat infections; three years ago she miscarried. Said Whitenight: "We've lived in fear for a long time. Now we'll wonder what we've passed on to the children...