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...workers, was his failure last December to join the one-day walkout of the Amalgamated Engineering Union at the Staveley works in Derbyshire. He had not joined the strike because his own union, the General and Municipal Workers, said not to. Despite the explanation, Ed Boyce, the A.E.U. shop steward, ruled: "The men in this shop .are not going to speak to you for six months." Hewitt might have moved on to some other shop, because he was still in good standing with his own union, but he resolved: "I'm not going to knuckle under...
When the first six months of silence was up, Boyce was still unrelenting. "We must have solidarity," he said, and decreed another six months. If any of the foundrymen felt sorry for Hewitt, they were even more concerned not to defy Boyce. Shop Steward Boyce-who made a trip to Moscow last year, but denies that he is a Communist-runs his little bailiwick ruthlessly. Hewitt's own union said: "Officially we don't know the situation exists." His employers echoed: "It's a matter for the men." Said Boyce flatly: "It's none...
...eleventh duke will probably continue to live, with his wife and two children, in the modest country home which used to belong to the steward of the estate...
...present program was passed upon a Council recommendation which was in turn prompted by a statement from the Adams House steward, Robert T. Martin. Martin showed that there would be no additional expense in having Claverly students breakfast in Houses other than those to which they are assigned. The new plan will merely become part of the regular inter-House eating system...
...have already dropped as a result of the U.S. downturn. But Butler is cheerful; he likens the British reaction to an old lady on a cruise: "She locks herself up in the cabin and is a little seasick, more out of apprehension than because of rough seas. Then the steward knocks on the door and tells her: 'We are two days out, ma'am, and the weather is fine.' Now, like the old lady, we are walking the deck and feeling good...