Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eisler acted as though he did not understand. Who had said this? A man who knew him-Louis Francis Budenz, ex-managing editor of Manhattan's Daily Worker. Eisler peered through his hornrimmed spectacles with a gentle smile and asked the gentlemen...
...other names and other activities. As Hans Berger he wrote articles for the Daily Worker. As Julius Eisman he made frequent visits to the Manhattan offices of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee-a Communist front organization which had duped Bennett Cerf, Charles BOyer, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and many another big name into becoming its sponsors. The Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee gave him monthly checks for $150. By means of the party grapevine, he was in touch with Samuel Kogan, alias Carr, a member of Canada's Communist atomic spy ring...
With no help from wrangling lawyers, the judge had to use common sense. A normal walking pace, he ruled, was three miles an hour. At that speed, no worker took more than three minutes to walk from the portal to his bench...
...indispensable part of his decision such fascinating statistics as these: mean distance from time clock to the bisque sagger filling department 528 feet; time required to reach Bisque sagger filling department at the determined walking rate of 250 or 275 feet per minute, depending on whether the worker enters from the South or North gate 1.92 minutes; time to grease arms 30 seconds; time to take clay off jigger machine one minute...
...matter of portal-to-portal pay falls in the same classification as other wage and hour disputes, and as such can be settled most effectively by collective bargaining rather than by prolonged litigation with the courts. Workers in some industries are rather obviously entitled to pay for time which they spend readying themselves for work or going from the plant or mine entrance to the place of work. In other industries time thus consumed is negligible and no imposition on the worker...