Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life Mr. Gilbreth has made a specialty of studying the workingman from a standpoint of efficiency. A bricklaying contractor for a number of years, himself, he made an intensive study of this art, with the result that the rate of bricklaying was doubled. Mr. Gilbreth has investigated almost every branch of work with the same result. He has invented the micro-motion and chronocyclegraph processes for determining the fundamental units and methods of industrial education. Before a special background fitted with a dial to record the time element, Mr. Gilbreth's expert assistant photographs the best workers in each trade...
This evening, however, he craves a new experience. So he tries entering the Merry Grotto in workingman's clothes. He is thrown down the stairs by Ravanni, Lisenco and Mike Scolleri, a bruiser who runs the cloak room of the establishment. He comes back again, is again thrown out. This happens six times. As he mounts the stairs for a seventh time, he discovers that the defense has been worn out by his persistence. By this time he is an enthusiastically worshipped hero. Especially to Selma, who sees in him an ally to her own determinations...
...workingman is no longer welcome in many of our Protestant Churches, and the workingman clothed in rags has no place where he is welcome in any of the Protestant Churches. The reverse is true of the Catholic Church. No matter how lowly his position in the social scale, no matter how ragged he may be, the doors of this Church always stand open...
...proposals Mr. Bullard fails to touch the basic philosophy of labor--that the workingman shall receive a decent living wage and that the work shall be so spread as to give this to as many workers as possible. All the policies which he attacks--closed unions, restriction of output, closed shops--are simply means to this end. It cannot be denied that unions have achieved much for their members, nor can it be denied that the achievement has caused inconvenience and waste. The aim is just and proper; what is needed is not criticism and fear but understanding so that...
...books and whose "Forty Years in My Bookshop" was recently published by Houghton Mifflin Company, the forgery of autobiography is not so common a pursuit for the indigent and unscrupulous intelligensia as it was forty years ago. In those days such incidents as the following were not uncommon. "A workingman came into my shop with a book under his arm:--Hone's Everyday Book, 1839, with a good many MS. marginal notes signed or initialled "Charles Lamb." He said...