Word: shovellers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Advisory Council, without recommending that this cumbrous bin be thrown out altogether, proposed beginning at once to shovel less coal in, shovel more coal out. Instead of upping the present tax rates of 1% on employer and 1% on employe automatically to the maximum of 3% apiece by 1949 as the Act provides, the Council advised calling a halt for "further study" after they have been upped to 1½% January...
...WPAsters wielding picks & shovels on a ditch-digging project in New York City's Bronx, 38 walked off the job one day last week and refused to labor more. Their reason: working with either pick or shovel was hard enough, but to ask any man to use these tools interchangeably (i.e., without a chance to rest while another worker plied the other tool) was "inhuman." Result: one man discharged, one suspended, interchangeable picking & shoveling resumed...
...Special" articles attacking WPA are not new to readers of the Chicago Tribune, but last month Managing Editor Robert M. Lee decided they could stand some more. For two straight weeks "The World's Greatest Newspaper" was loaded with columns of WPAtrocities, photo-graphs of grinning shovel-leaners, and such headlines...
...known any work but WPA" and, according to Blackburn, didn't want any. "Johnny," cracked Mr. Hunter, was a former newspaper distributor and bookkeeper who had been trying for a long time to get back some money he had loaned Reporter Blackburn. One of the Tribune's shovel-leaning pictures, said Mr. Hunter's statement, was taken at a private sewer job; another had been hastily cut down to a single column between editions when Tribune editors found it showed a number of men working hard in the background...
Heavy trucks rumbled into Paris and dumped sand at points where it would be handy to shovel into bags for bomb shelters. Some 1,200,000 Frenchmen were with the colors, for in France also, recruits whose training period ended with August received no permission to return home. The whole of the vast steel and cement subterranean Maginot Line was more fully manned than ever before. General Edouard Réquin, in command of the Maginot Line, was abruptly promoted to the Superior War Council and several other high army commanders were given new key posts by Premier Daladier...