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Republican "Cy" Ching has had a good look at labor-management troubles from at least three different positions: labor, management, government. A native of Prince Edward Island, he started out in Boston as a streetcar motorman, got his law degree at night school. He soon hopped over to the other side of the fence. In 1919 he became labor expert for U.S. Rubber Co., ten years later took over as the company's director of labor relations. As a onetime member of NRA, the National Defense Mediation Board, the old NWLB, he knows bureau procedure. His formula, which thus...
Said a Brussels streetcar conductor: "The Russians are damned asses...
Lindeners were basically easygoing, but could become aroused over really important issues. The streetcar company's attempts to cut down a huge and historic linden tree on its right of way provoked an epic battle which cut through religious, political and even family lines. So did the argument as to whether the turn of the century came on Jan. 1, 1900 or Jan. 1, 1901. Another question that provoked a fist fight: Can salmon best be grilled over birch or willow coals...
...city. Last week Calcutta was still divided into "Pakistan" and "Hindustan" quarters, with strong points bristling with .barbed wire and machine guns. A Hindu driver dared not cross into a Moslem quarter, nor a Moslem into "Hindustan." In Bombay, where Hindus and Moslems had formerly lived mixed in together, streetcar signs now said "Pakistan Bombay," meaning the Moslem quarter...
...streetcar clanked slowly along Munich's long, steep Tegernseer Landstrasse. Inside, behind the plywood which replaced the car's bomb-shattered windows, it was dark. The conductor was collecting fares. One woman fumbled in her handbag for a 50-pfennig piece, dropped it on the floor as the car shook...