Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...making an effort to gain a firm foothold on the Pacific Coast. The July 1 number of The Marine Worker (published free of charge by the Marine Transport Workers' International Union, No. 510; address Box 69, Station D, New York City) gave some indication of the propaganda which the I. W. W. are carrying on in Los Angeles. It is published about 25% in Spanish and carries such slogans as: Boycott all California-made Goods and Motion Pictures. You Cannot Fight the Boss and Booze at the Same Time. Be Like a Mule and Kick if Conditions...
...story of Paul Borgen, arrested in Los Angeles (weighing 160 pounds) and released 65 days later, without trial (weighing 120 pounds). "As a result of sleeping on a damp steel floor" he died 20 days later. "We call it outright murder. . . . The funeral was attended by 200 fellow workers. . . . Pictures of the floral pieces were taken in the chapel and later we took a photograph of Fellow Worker Paul Borgen himself in his casket. We expect to make picture postal cards and have them sold all over the country " to raise " a little money for the California fight...
...must be understood that the M. T. U. (Marine Transport Workers) are violently opposed to the I. S. U. (International Seamen's Union) and .the Federation of Labor (which they call the Fakeration). The same num-ber of The Marine Worker refers to the pie-cards (i. e. paid officials) of the I. S. U. as " these vermin/' speaks of their " slimy tactics," calls them grafters and pimps and other names. Ships' officers are termed " crimps" (i. e. men who sign seamen on ships), and " scissorbills " (conservatives, not members of the I. W. W.), and "finks" (scabs...
Three-cornered negotiations between the Government, the companies and the workers broke down. The Government proposed a wage of 10,000 marks an hour. The workers demanded "real pay for real work"; a sliding scale of wages based on the cost of living was urged. The Government feared it would add to the depreciation. The companies said a wage which varied each week would make it impossible to quote prices in doing business. The workers said that 15,000 marks an hour was the minimum on which a worker could live. They also demanded an immediate bonus...
Fortunes. Mrs. Ford, Yorkshire woman, mill worker, made $150,000 in a sweepstake. A rich Londoner won $60,000; he gave one-third to charity. A stenographer won $46,000. A Plymouth hotel man drew Papyrus in three sweepstakes and is said to have made nearly a million dollars. There were others...