Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accepting the raise as "welcome but inadequate," Leader Lewis objected most strenuously to U. S. Steel's cost-of-living feature as freezing the worker forever at his living standard of July 1936. "If the rent goes up," said he, "the steel man may hope to get additional pay to make up the difference-but he can't rent a better home." Nonetheless, Leader Lewis cheerfully insisted that the raise was due solely to fear of his organizing drive. He declared: "The wage increase and the re-election of President Roosevelt will do more to make workers conscious...
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...Tyler, Tex., a brawny oil-field worker walked into the Gladewater Cafe, demanded fried chicken. Informed that no chicken was to be had, he spied a caged canary, ordered it fried "with plenty of gravy," paid $25 for his meal...
Anthony Grzebyk is the biggest man in the Plymouth automobile plant in Detroit. He stands 6 ft. 4½in., weighs 300 lb., measures 48 in. around the waist. His towering bulk, his stolid face are familiar to nearly every worker under the 22 acres of Plymouth roof. He works on the assembly line in the evening shift, arriving a half-hour early just as the day shift is quitting at 3:30 p. m. To day shift and to evening shift he is known simply as "Big Tony...
Hours into Dollars. The 90?-per-hour wage of Plymouth's Big Tony Grzebyk is a little better than average for the industry (80?) His earnings for 1936, with special bonuses, will foot up to more than $1,800, which is somewhat better than average for steady automobile workers (about $1,500 this year). In 1931 Big Tony got ten days work in the spring, was laid off until June, then worked for the rest of the year, a total of some 31 weeks. The next year he was sick for two months and his work was even more...