Word: sweatshops
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...Sweatshop. Of Ottawa itself, Austin Cross wrote: "This is the capital of Canada. . . . Here is democracy at work with an hour and a half off for lunch. . . . This is where they run the war. You find soldiers who can't fight, sailors who can't sail, and flyers...
Duhig is amazed at the number of outsiders who think Harvard men will work for sweatshop wages just because they're students. "One fellow wanted an engineer-drafts-man with car, to design horse trailers, pull them around the country, and do odd carpentry too. All for $18 a week." Many companies call up for trained graduate scientists, offering under $20, when undergraduates are getting $25 doing the same thing...
With a program of action ranging from cooperation with the P.B.H. Civilian Defense Committee in lodging draftees on weekend leave, to investigating sweatshop conditions in student-patronized laundries, the Harvard Liberal Union got under way at its first meeting of the year in the Kirkland House Common Room last night...
...rumor rose that he really ran a sweatshop of hacks. He was at work by dawn, silent at meals, neither drinking nor smoking; only the theater could keep him out of bed after 8 p.m. When he died 5,000 people were at his funeral...
EPISODE ON WEST 8TH STREET-Jule Brousseau-Smith & Durrell ($2.50). A murky, painstaking story of a few New Yorkers: a distraught sweatshop Jew who kills his boss, an unemployed architect and his wife, a suicidal Polish girl from the Pennsylvania coal patches. Rather Greenwich-Villagesque, but definitely talented...