Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This cash is pooled with the national Unemployment Fund. The worker, as his pennies clink merrily in, comes to have a pleasant, capitalistic sense of "money in the bank...
...steadily employed worker can see no charity in these 17 shillings. He himself is the cause of 22-3-pence being added to the fund every week. The other fellow for a few weeks will get, if anything, less than is fair. He should have a dependent wife or mistress, could then draw an extra nine shillings per week for her, plus two more shillings for each dependent child, legitimate or illegitimate...
...Atlanta, Ga., A. E. Shipp, structural steel worker, sued Central Railway of Georgia for $75,000 because, since one of their locomotives hit his automobile, he has suffered from loss of his nerve in the practice of his trade. Said he: ''When I stood on a beam and was hoisted out . . . 190 ft. above the water . . . my face broke out in a cold sweat...
...body for earth with which to grow a garden of fungus in her pocket. When she has found a crevice in which to set up housekeeping, she deposits the garden beside her, fertilizes it by breaking some of her own eggs. When the rest of the eggs hatch into worker-ants, they assume the task of tending the garden...
There is an ant queen of another species who, contemplating a nuptial flight, assembles a horde of worker-ants around her, carries them around on her strong legs to care for the children when they shall be born. The children are so numerous and tiny she cannot tend them herself...