Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Magazines and Public Opinion (Sun. 7 p.m., CBS) discussed by LIFE's General Manager Charles Douglas Jackson, True Story Editor William J. Rapp, Research Worker Calais Calvert, Auto-driving Instructor Thomas Hayes at Professor Lyman Bryson's dinner table...
Canon Cardijn has repeatedly summed up JOC's program: "Every Jocist has a Divine mission from God, second only to that of the priest, to bring the whole world to Christ." French-speaking workers in New Hampshire formed the first Jocist group in the U. S. A Catholic college student of Glendale, L. I., Vincent J. Ferrari, is launching the movement on a wider front, under the supervision of an able Paulist father, Rev. Paul Ward. Four Jocist study groups have been started. Jocist Ferrari, no worker himself, last week appeared minded to modify the thoroughly radical temper...
Chairman Hochman believes that labor unions owe to their members education and fun as well as higher wages, that "man does not live by bread alone." Mr. Hochman and the union's able educational director, British-born Mark Starr, think that a worker is not fully educated in high school or college. Purpose of their workers' education program: to remove "prejudices" acquired in public schools, fill gaps, give workers "realistic" attitudes toward labor, teach them how a union works...
...whipped over the tracks like a snake, threatening momentarily to fall to pieces. But the Balkan occupants had no qualms at all. If the Chewtobaccos, the big bosses, said they were safe, they must be safe. Their faith in democracy was often demonstrated just as literally. Because a giant worker heard that workers were equal with the rich, he carried a mattress, white sheets, wore silk pajamas, and one derisive titter at this display was worth a titterer's life. Brooding one time over a ludicrously unfounded case of discrimination, he asked Stoyan, the gang's spokesman...
...most stubborn of California's public health problems is the high incidence of coccidioidomycosis ("valley fever," "desert fever") among farmhands, sheepherders and oil workers of the San Joaquin Valley. Although coccidioidomycosis was first recognized in 1893, it was not until last June that a complete picture of the course of the disease was presented to physicians. Last week, at the San Francisco meeting of the Society of American Bacteriologists, Dr. Ernest Charles Dickson of Stanford Medical School, pioneer worker in valley fever, gave the first public, comprehensive account of the disease he had studied for 20 years...