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...Akron, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and B. F. Goodrich Co. put most of their departments on a six-hour day as an emergency means of providing for the largest number of employes...
...warn every German worker against going to Russia. . . . Our contracts called for six-hour shifts with pay of 140 to 150 rubles ($70 to $75) a month . . . but each man was set so large a daily task that seven or eight hours was required to finish it. ... Food was bad ... no meat .... quarters dirty. . . . Briefly, the cultural and social conditions in Russia cannot satisfy any German worker...
...Long Lance of the Blackfoot tribe, author, boxer, wrestler and onetime West Pointer, to play the leads. Burden and Chanler spent ten months on wilderness location to obtain a realism so striking that Paramount, which released The Silent Enemy last week, complained: "People will never believe it." Accordingly, a six-hour epic has been cut to 90 minutes. But it is still epic...
...home of Walter Burgess, she was ready for Death. She had arranged for her high requiem mass at St. Gabriel's Church in Washington, her interment at Mt. Olive, Ill. Still matriarchal, still organ-voiced, she said as her great anniversary approached: "A five-day week and a six-hour day would mean work for everybody. . . . I've had a lot of chance to think lately and the more I think, the more radical...
...constitution, identical with the old one, just 40 minutes before the regular delegates meeting at Indianapolis did the same thing. They kept the Union's regular name, voted Lewis out simply by declaring all national offices vacant. Official salaries were cut in half, a five-day week and six-hour day were approved. Communists, 'leggers and Ku Klux Klansmen were banned from...