Word: roughwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carpenters' union or laborers' union. At the peak, 11,800 laborers got jobs. The carpenters' union could supply only 200 of its regular members, but 8,113 carpenters had to be hired. Army men said that about 55% of them were roughwork carpenters, 35% were not fully qualified. "Sears Roebuck carpenters" arrived at the site with $5 worth of new tools and a desire to cut in on the Government bonanza. But the unions were the boys who really cut in. Their "take" in initiation fees and dues, Army men estimated, was at least...
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