Word: shipyards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Front, a Book-of-the-Month, has sold 783,000 copies), Mauldin has consciously gone slumming. Digging for ideas, he haunts the bars along Los Angeles' tawdry Main Street, hangs around the veterans' service centers, employment agencies. In desperation he decided to take a job in a shipyard to pick up color, but V-J day virtually put the yard out of business...
...thin, worried Gabriel Tremblay, 39, it was a sorry Labor Day. A onetime Montreal restaurant owner, he had been working at the Canadian Vickers, Ltd. shipyard in East Montreal. There he made better wages than ever before, but heavy medical expenses and old business debts made saving all but impossible. Now that he had been laid off, he did not know what to do. Said he: "The soldiers are coming back . . . and they have to have jobs. But us, we have to live, too." His pretty wife Marianne had it all figured out: unless Gabriel found a job soon, they...
...union, the C.I.O.'s Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers of America, promptly protested that Congress had meant no such thing, planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. If this version of super-seniority is carried out, the Union predicted, employes in many a shipyard and U.S. plant, including World War I veterans, will have to be fired to make way for veterans. Example: the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Chester, Pa. has 19,000 former employes in service. Yet cutbacks have shrunk its payroll down to only 7,000 workers, some with 20 years' seniority...
...uniforms. Washington had already been blessed with the return of Outfielder Buddy Lewis; Lewis was hitting a fancy .356. Charlie ("King Kong") Keller had come back, too, but too late to save the staggering Yankees. Cleveland's warpath Indians, who had just reclaimed (from a Texas shipyard) a potent hitter in Les Fleming, this week were due to get the cream of the crop- Fireball Bob Feller...
This was a taste of what the Government would dish out on V-J day and after. War workers were confused. In Philadelphia, shipyard workers asked when their jobs would end, learned that their bosses did not know. Some plants planned a two-day holiday-so that employes could celebrate while the companies try to discover Washington's intentions...