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...through a tangled skein of fact, discovered that four unions claimed jurisdiction over the mechanics, that three had invoked a National Media tion Board election, the other an NMB mediator. Almost lost in the tangle was a rejected company wage offer which would hardly remind most onlookers of the sweatshop-as much pay for a peacetime 40-hour week as for a wartime 48-hour week, plus an average increase of about 10% to boot...
...knew nothing about law or parliamentary procedure. He voted as Foley told him to vote, and for lonely years spent his nights in a cheap boardinghouse, trying to understand the bills before the Assembly. And he learned. He could talk. Men liked him. When a New York sweatshop fire in 1911 killed 149 women, he began fighting for a labor code for the state. He became a public figure, and speaker of the Assembly...
...worked as a waitress in Childs, in a sweatshop, as a nursemaid, a salesgirl, wardrobe mistress in a Minsky burlesque, and for 26 months "wrote, peddled, rewrote, repeddled, without so much as one word of encouragement." Then one day in 1912 she met Editor "Bob" Davis of Munsey's Magazine. " 'Fannie Hurst,' he said, after reading a story I came peddling, 'you can write!' " In the next 31 years she wrote 22 books...
...production. It has been championed as the answer to the manpower pinch, as a shot in the arm to hop war production up as much as 30%. It has also been condemned as a backward step towards the piecework system (particularly unpopular with automotive workers), the speedup, the sweatshop...
...coke,' skips lunch, and dines on a 10? sandwich. She shares a room with as many as three other girls and they live in such squalor that, if similar conditions existed elsewhere, Ottawa people would be collecting funds to help them. Meet the Government, biggest operator of sweatshop labor in Canada...