Word: tradesmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nairobi Railway Institute fortnight ago and gazed hopefully at the judge sitting behind a deal table on the stage. The Railway Institute can be used as a theatre. It has an orchestra pit, folding chairs and well-equipped fly gallery. Seldom had the professional hunters, coffee growers and tradesmen who crowded the back of the hall witnessed such a drama...
...that as New York goes, so goes the union. Under the proposed reductions bricklayers would be paid $12 per day instead of $15.40. Plasterers would be cut from $15.40 to $10. Their helpers, now paid from $8.15 to $10.12, would receive a flat $7. These reductions would bring building tradesmen back to the 1923 basis. As labor absorbs 60% of the expense of erecting the average building, a decrease in construction costs appeared close at hand to help stimulate the industry...
...wife, who said that Charlotte Fixel, writing to her in 1920 had stated that she had been married to Mr. Erlanger; five employes of an Atlantic City hotel; an actress; three waiters; a doorman; the proprietor of a suburban inn; a Pullman porter; a hairdresser; a former valet; various tradesmen; a room clerk in Manhattan's smart Ambassador Hotel...
...past year alone because of unemployment. Urban U. S. citizens get the notion that every worker in the country has a union card. That is because city dwellers who are annoyed by having to pay plasterers $15.40 a day, come chiefly in contact with building tradesmen whose ranks show an optimistic gain of 461,000 in the past ten years. Over the same period, unionized printers and bookbinders increased 54,000, clothing workers 119,000, musicians 89,000. These are isolated instances and do not amount to much when it is considered that the unionized strength of steelworkers has melted...
...metal trades department incorporated a threatening tone in its annual report by urging Federal relief measures for the winter ''to prevent cold and hungry workmen from being driven to desperation." The building tradesmen, however, were chiefly concerned with a jurisdictional problem: carpenters in Philadelphia were making employers let them do work which the A. F. of L. Board of Jurisdictional Awards had allotted to the elevator constructors. President Frank Feeney of the elevator constructors' union interrupted the meeting to call his men off their Philadelphia jobs...