Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First thing Worker Martin learned about was the "speed-up." Put to work with four others on a truck assembly line, within a week he found himself and one other doing the work of the original five. "Working conditions" became a reality one day when several completed trucks slipped off their runway, crashed down on the spot where he would have been standing if he had not been at lunch. He went to the foreman, got steel posts put up which saved his life next time some trucks crashed down. Meantime he had become vice president of the local automobile...
...less than that of grey William Knudsen was young Homer Martin's viewpoint explicit in his career. He had known anti-union discrimination and the nerve-racking speed-up at first hand. He had seen automobile Labor, with a scattering of small unions, repeatedly frustrated and defeated in its attempts to right its wrongs. It was obviously presumptuous of him to demand, when he could not even claim to represent a majority of G. M. employes, that his union be recognized as sole bargaining agency for them all. But if there was to be industrial democracy...
...Such speed on the part of the A. B. A. on a matter less than a week old was no less surprising than the vote by 150 lawyers-delegates deciding that some of the things they were doing were unconstitutional by A. B. A. laws. Brought to a showdown on a resolution urging the Federal Government to extend civil service to all employes except top Government officials, the House of Delegates voted itself out of order, threw out all other proposals not concerned with law and legal orders. Next day, however, delegates approved a civil service resolution relating to Federal...
...Goldberg out of his attack, used him as a decoy to suck in the defense while Bobby LaRue and Frank Patrick took the ball away. Eel-hipped Patrick's spinners knifed long gashes in the famed Washington line. LaRue pointed his knees at the Husky ends, hitting top speed in a stride or two while his interference took out the secondary defense as if they thought each play was a potential touchdown...
...tackle England, Russia and France without a major Europeanally. She isn't ready for war economically or politically. Of course, a Fascist victory in Spain will be a great boost for Fascism all over the world, and so the outcome in Spain will be a determining factor in the speed of liberal movements everywhere...