Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...housewife in the cotton town of Darwen, Lancashire, expressed the verdict of millions. "It's not so much what the plan saved me in money," she said, "because if I'd had to pay, I wouldn't have had us all done. I couldn't have afforded it. If we had paid, it would have cost us nearly ?16. Me and the children have all been examined, and the doctor's given me vitamin pills, and ordered two of the children to have specs, and sent another to have exercises for her spine...
Last week the small southern Ontario mill town of Paris was rounding out its second month of a bitter labor conflict. Back in November the United Textile Workers of America (A.F.L.) had called a strike meeting. Of the 4,637 people in Paris, 650 were employed in the Penman's, Ltd. textile mills, the town's No. 1 industry. At the strike meeting, only 51 people cast ballots, 27 in favor of a strike, 24 against it. The company granted a 5?-an-hour increase, but union leaders, seeking 15?, used their three-vote majority to call...
...first day there was a scuffle at the mill gates. Ailing Mrs. Charles Cardy, 45, a Penman's worker for 20 years, collapsed in the snow, later died in the hospital. Although the coroner ruled that Mrs. Cardy's death was not caused by strike violence, the Town Council was taking no chances. They called in the Ontario provincial police to help halt the daily mix-up between strikers and nonstrikers. The provincials seized a blackjack from one worker. Two policemen were stabbed with women's hatpins. Children on the sidelines threw stone-filled snowballs...
Families & Friends. From the mill gates, the strike's acid corrosion spread all over town. Fiery Val Bjarnason, U.T.W.'s Ontario director, organized a march on the home of Mayor William England to demand the removal of the provincial police. The mayor, whose own daughter had marched in the strikers' picket line, went to the hospital to rest his shattered nerves...
...show contained a pitifully small sampling of Marcks's early work. The Nazis had melted some of it down for shell-case metal. More had been destroyed when an Allied bomb wiped out his Berlin studio in 1944, and still more when Russian troops arrived in the Mecklenburg town where he had begun some, new work. The Russians smashed the new work, as if Marcks had been Hitler's pampered...