Word: printshop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit, if a compositor works so much as a minute into his lunch period, he gets time and a half for the whole period. A printshop employee, if not notified of a change in his shift before leaving the plant, gets $2 extra "callin" pay-plus overtime until the start of his regular shift...
...stone plates, new color-printing techniques-lead to more and more jobs for lithographers at higher and higher pay (now $125 to $200 for a 35-hour week). Convinced that unions ought to promote higher productivity, not resist it, Swayduck has fought the featherbedding that made many a printshop worker resemble, in Swayduck's words, "the guy in the orchestra who waits for two hours, then bangs the cymbals together once, then leans back again." Automation, Swayduck believes, is a boon to workers, not a menace. "If it helps get products to the consumer more cheaply," he says...
...court, behind the duchess, sat her codefendants: a lawyer, a printshop owner, a printer and Don Bernardo Bernardez, an elderly monarchist leader and onetime banker. Having been fired from his post at the Banco Iberico, Don Bernardo deemed himself a ruined man. But as a Spanish caballero, there was one thing more he could do for Luisa Maria. He could, in spite of his wife and ten children, take the rap for the duchess. Don Bernardo stoutly denied that she had any connection with his political activities. Said he: "If the facts are criminal, I myself am the only criminal...