Word: tradesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want anyone to mistake me for a janitor," one BGMA member said. Another large trade union was apparently rejected by the BGMA officers for much the same reason. This union had offered to take in all those already practicing a particular trade as masters, and take all the other tradesmen in under the classification of "helpers...
...Workers demanded that the contract, which still has a year to run, be renegotiated for some 200,000 pipe fitters, millrights and other craftsmen. The U.A.W. in sisted that such workers get a $1-an-hour wage hike, so as to put them on a par with other building tradesmen in the Detroit area. The Big Three turned the U.A.W. down cold, whereupon 1,300 workers picketed Chrysler headquarters with placards demanding "More...
Last week's 107 to 97 vote ended a factional dispute that has troubled the union since early July. At that time the skilled tradesmen of the union--mainly plumbers, electricians, pipefitters, and sheet-metal-workers--refused to join with other employees in negotiating a new contract...
...them gave Napoleon ceaseless trouble. Pauline, an apparent nymphomaniac, had herself sculpted in the nude by Canova, slept indiscriminately with ambassadors and tradesmen, and fostered the rumor that she was engaged in an incestuous affair with Napoleon himself. The brothers and sisters squabbled among themselves about whose titles took precedence and complained regularly to Napoleon about details of protocol at the court (Elisa and Caroline never forgave him for seating them on stools at one state reception when they felt their rank entitled them to arm chairs). Worst of all, Napoleon's addled brothers got the notion that they...
Other popular fakes are tradesmen's signs and old dolls, toys and jelly molds. Most of the forgeries are made in the U.S., where signs and wooden artifacts are aged half a dozen decades in about as many hours by the time-honored application of shellac and sizing, metal leaf and umber, topped off with a few wormholes supplied by an electric drill and a sound thrashing with a heavy iron chain...