Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even be that Captain Rickenbacker's soldier, brought back from Guadalcanal to work in the aircraft factory, would after a short time start complaining if the shipyard worker made more money than...
...lawyer turned shipyard worker present these views on the "bastards" issue (TIME, March...
...Though Mexican workers now occupied San Antonio's famed "spicetown cribs," the rate of delinquency among young girls had increased 350% in two years. One of every four girl "car hops" at the city's drive-ins was found to be venereally infected. Said a social worker among the professional prostitutes: "The girls are sore as all get-out. They say the young chippies who work for a beer and sandwich are cramping their style...
When the United States Employment Service inquired, some time ago, of selected war industries how many jobs would be opened to qualified Negroes, answers showed that 51 per cent were absolutely closed to colored workers in both northern and southern states, for unskilled as well as skilled workers. Although the government has urged and even demanded that industry hire Negroes, management officials have been slow to respond. Standard Steel of Kansas City, Missouri, declared: "We have never had a Negro worker in twenty-five years and don't intend to start...
...include the Negro. But whether this is a permanent advance or only a temporary perch "for the duration" will depend upon the efficiency that Negroes show in their jobs, the extent to which they find and master training at skilled trades, and the readiness of employers to evaluate American workers on a basis not of their color, but of their ability. It will depend, also, upon whether organized labor learns the lesson that the white worker will never be free while his Negro fellows remain chained...