Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been 30 years. Driving through the jack-pine country of northern Wisconsin on his calls, Doc MacKinnon reflected: it had seemed much shorter than that. In the long country-doctor days and broken nights of George Elliott MacKinnon, now 60, he had brought hundreds -thousands-of children into life. Many a Finnish logger had come to his office in little (pop. 452) Prentice, Wis. to be patched up after a knife fight. There had been fevers, croups, contagions, the flu epidemic of 1919, when Doc was out on the drifted roads for eight subzero days & nights, .with a steaming horse...
...strikers, led by double-chinned, mild-talking David Sullivan, onetime Irish Republican Army soldier and president of Local 32-6 of the Building Service Employes International Union, A.F. of L., were disgruntled at a WLB wage-&-hour ruling. A WLB panel had recommended hourly wage increases that, with shorter hours, would have kept weekly take-home pay at $30 to $35. But WLB modified the recommendations: the union said the Board's ruling would mean take-home pay of only $28 to $32.50. As is often the case when WLB decisions go against a union, the impatient elevator operators...
...midshipmen get through four years without being "frapped" (reported for some infraction). For a long list of Class B offenses (from "hair not properly cut" to "window, throwing articles from") midshipmen sweat out hours of extra duty drills. For a shorter list of Class A offenses (malingering, obscenity, scandalous conduct, etc.) midshipmen brood in confinement in their rooms. Midshipman quip that there are still men from the classes of the '30s gathering dust in forgotten corners of Bancroft Hall...
...city's teacher-coaches, who had struck to get extra pay for their sport chores. Long after the coaches had gone back to work, their pupils had not. The kids simply changed their slogan from "No sports-no school" to a call-to-arms with more appeal: "Shorter hours, more sports, less homework...
Labor's demands, as usual, were for shorter hours and higher pay. Labor wanted to work less, spread employment and get the equivalent of wartime pay. The cost of living, labor pointed out, is still up. Said Walter Reuther, the auto workers' brain truster: full production, full employment and full distribution depend on keeping wages at their present level...