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...George Fechtner of the Machinists' Union of New England, a leader in the recent strike at Waltham, addressed the La Follette-Wheeler club last night in the Faculty Room of the Union, and declared that the present progressive political movement is a manifestation of an age-old struggle of the common people to secure better and larger lives for themselves...
After the address, Mr. Fechtner explained in a short interview the workman's point of view in the Waltham strike, of which he was a leader. "During the past two years", said Mr. Fechtner, "the wages have been reduced 40 percent. When it was announced that there would be a further 10 percent reduction, the workers, though unorganized, universally struck...
That all changed earlier this year when Scarpa learned about IE-Engine, a privately held software firm based in Waltham, Mass., that promised to make it easier and cheaper to buy health insurance. IE-Engine set up a pilot program that helped ABB streamline its health-care providers in North Carolina from three to one with no reduction in quality of care. The system enabled Scarpa and his staff to make that decision in half the time it would have taken before. From the receipt of bids to the comparative analysis, the entire process was handled via the Internet...
...social justice and deeply involved in his community. Among other activities, he delivered food for Meals-On-Wheels and worked with clinics to help children. He sponsored a needy Chinese family that had escaped by boat from Vietnam and eventually saw the family establish a new life in Waltham, Mass...
...entice a potential foreign buyer to visit your lab in the U.S. or accept a visit from you. But then you have to have that better mousetrap. "You need to have a niche-breaking product," stresses Ellenberger. Steven Domenikos, CEO and founder of Telegea, a software firm based in Waltham, Mass., has had success in Japan because his technology automates the service-fulfillment process for telecom companies, cutting their delivery costs more than...