Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last election), the Red papers from the beginning criticized the plant, reported each death or injury there on Page One with black borders, and called it "The Cursed Foundry." At 7:30 on the evening of Jan. 7, in Cornigliano's big, new cold-rolling mill, a maintenance worker yelled, "Look out!" Two minutes later, with a giant crashing and a bending of massive girders, the mill's null roof lay shattered on the floor, and Italy's steel comeback was set back a year and a half...
...ties setting car after car aflame. Before the flames reached his car, Foreign Minister Zafrullah Khan was hauled to safety, but others were not so lucky. Despite an official claim of only 150 dead, some survivors estimated that nearly 300 had lost their lives in the wreck. One railroad worker bound for his brother's wedding raced forward to the women's flaming car to check on his wife and five children just after the crash. They were all dead. "There was not a wail of anguish," he said later, "not a cry for help. They were...
Last week the Packinghouse Padre's findings reached bookstores in a notable 344-page study entitled The Worker Speaks His Mind on Company and Union (Harvard University Press; $6). Writes the author...
...From the center of the Midwest, often considered a seedbed for isolationists, the Journal speaks in a ringing, uncompromising, internationalist voice. In Senator McCarthy's home state, the Journal attacks him so fiercely that McCarthy calls it "that left-wing smear newspaper, the Milwaukee edition of the Daily Worker" Other readers, damning its doggedly independent, liberal ways, refer to it as "that damn Journal." (One prominent Milwaukeean pays his newsboy 25? a week to tear out the editorial page before delivering the paper.) Isolationist Chicago Tribune Publisher Colonel Robert McCormick, who considers the Journal a radical upstart...
...staff is nominally responsible to Editor and President J. (for John) Donald Ferguson, 63, a friendly, Missouri-born, white-thatched newsman, who, like Grant and the Journal's managing editor, started out as a railway worker. Like every other staffer, he always calls Grant "Mr. Grant." (Once he addressed him as "Boss," and Grant exploded: "That reminds me of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Simon Legree.") Editor Ferguson leaves the day-to-day operations to Managing Editor Wallace ("Chink") Lomoe, 56, a capable, hard-driving ex-state editor who came to the Journal as a reporter 25 years...