Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...angry black man stalked through the Detroit factory with murder in his head, an M-l carbine in his hands. While other workers cringed, James Johnson Jr., 35, killed Foreman Hugh Jones with one shot, then pumped four more bullets into his victim's body. When another foreman tried to disarm him, Johnson killed him too. Then Johnson went after a worker, Joseph Kowalski, whose job was a particularly good one, and murdered him. Finally persuaded to surrender, Johnson threw his rifle against a wall and quietly waited for the police...
Site-Seeing. Those contentions were presented to a jury that included two auto workers and three auto workers' wives. The testimony was grim. According to witnesses, safety conditions in the plant were so bad that last year they prompted a wildcat strike. The floors were full of grease from leaky machines; overhead conveyors had no screens to catch falling parts. The aisles were so narrow and cluttered that forklift trucks and workers often could not squeeze by one another; one such truck recently crashed because of faulty brakes, toppling its load and killing the driver. For blacks, there...
...goof, but Johnson saw a conspiracy building. On the fatal day, he was ordered to unload the ovens, a job generally conceded to be the worst in the plant. He refused and was suspended. An hour later he was back in the plant, ready, in the words of one worker, "to shoot at everyone wearing a white shirt...
...many illnesses are unpredictable, and these can be disastrous. Construction Worker Roland Snyder, 36, a bachelor who lives with his mother in Maryland Heights, Mo., thought that his weight loss and headaches were the result merely of overwork until doctors hospitalized him and learned that he had tuberculous spinal meningitis. The first 13 weeks of treatment cost $13,000. After another five months in a free public hospital, he was moved to a nursing home. His and his mother's insurance benefits were soon exhausted, along with their savings of $1,500. Snyder is now home once more...
...monsoon came while I was in Luang Prabang. One rainy night I went with a young USAID agricultural worker to try out the area's traditional specialty, opium. Laos's opium, which is legal, is reputed to be the best in the world...