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...aware of it, Californians who own or rent property have something in common to grumble about. Until recently, state law provided that liability for injuries suffered by persons on their property varied according to the victim's status. Most protected by the law were people like milkmen, repairmen and insurance agents, who were called to do business. Last in line to collect for injury were social guests and trespassers, both of whom had to take the premises as they found them, regardless of dangers. All the owner or tenant owed them, it went on, was to refrain "from wanton...
...union may not have been striking, but the 180,000 daily commuters on the Long Island Rail Road could hardly tell the difference. Because of a 30% curtailment of normal service, which the state-owned Long Island blamed on a slowdown by D'Avanzo's car repairmen, overcrowded trains whizzed by their usual stops, forcing thousands of frustrated commuters to abandon the platforms in search of other transportation to their jobs. Engaged in a dispute with the ailing Long Island over job security, the union conceded that its men were refusing to work overtime to service trains...
...list of jobs that women are doing is almost endless. In Canada, lumberjacks have been joined by lumber-Jills. In the U.S. this summer, the Good Humor man may as often as not be a Good Humor woman. In Europe, women have turned into bricklayers, painters, welders, cabinetmakers, watch repairmen, goldsmiths, pharmacists, chimney sweeps and even traveling saleswomen. No less than 85% of Finland's dentists are female, and so are a quarter of the physicians. In both Japan and France, there are women firemen. Norway, like the U.S. and other countries, has hired femailmen to carry letters...
Other bargaining units from coast to coast quickly came to the same terms. After that, calling off the strike, which had been aimed at telephone service in 47 states, needed only membership ratification for picket lines to dissolve and for installers, repairmen, operators and clerks to return to jobs that have been held down in their absence by supervisory personnel. Beirne predicted that ratification would come quickly...
...slogan as he led 200,000 telephone workers to the picket lines two weeks ago, Communications Workers of America Boss Joseph A. Beirne allowed that "the voice with a smile will be gone for a while." And so it was-at least among the grim-faced installers, operators, linemen, repairmen and clerks out on the streets last week...