Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course of one half-hour's brooding over his grave, situated in a less frequented portion of the city, I saw two American enlisted men, one American Red Cross worker, two plaid-skirted Scottish lieutenants and two Italian girls come to pay their respects...
...Self-Insurance. In Seattle, Mrs. Alice Alfaro, a laundry worker, applied for and got a final divorce decree after keeping her interlocutory decree since February 1925. The reason for her delay, as explained by her lawyer: "She was fed up with marriage, but was afraid she might try it again if she were free...
...Tires for Victory Rally" in Akron, Rubber Director Bradley Dewey urged "every worker whose output helps to build a heavy-duty or airplane tire to make his final sprint." The synthetic production program has succeeded, he said, and "our production capacity is now so great that we have been able to lend some synthetic rubber manufacturing facilities to provide extra quantities of high-octane gasoline. . . ." Then he pointed his finger at the present bottleneck: the lack of manpower and equipment in making heavy-duty tires...
...strike started when 16 female button sewers at a Hart Schaffner & Marx factory, earning $3 to $8 a week, walked out over a 4? reduction in piecework pay. (One of the 16 strikers was round-faced, Russian-born Bessie Abramovitz, whom Hillman later married.) For three weeks, more & more workers left their sweatshops until the 16 strikers had become 41,000. Each night there were meetings, usually at Hull House, addressed by Welfare Worker Jane Addams, Lawyer Clarence Darrow, and the strike leaders...
These porcelain figures are chessmen from the U.S.S.R., where chess is the most popular indoor sport and chess pieces represent figures in the class struggle. The chained worker is a capitalist pawn. The sinister piece whose head is a grimacing skull is the capitalist king. The rugged collective farmer is a communist pawn. The aproned worker is a communist king. Last week this chess set and over 30 others went on exhibition at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Many of the pieces, some dating from the 9th Century, were exquisite miniature sculptures in ivory, silver, fine woods. Most...