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...Recently, they circulated clandestine letters saying that "Casablanca will be another Dienbienphu." Help from the Hills. In retaliation for the terror, Guillaume's police jailed a thousand suspects, of whom 300 still await trial. Day after day his gendarmes roamed the cities, questioning the rich and searching the workingmen. If a suspect was caught with an out-of-date banknote (a symbol used by Istiqlal members for identification), he was likely to be jailed on charges of "beginning the execution of an act whose nature would disturb public order." Guillaume has reinforced the police by bringing in solidly...
...Skiddoo! Snapped Millikin: "Let us cut out the bunk about how this tax bill is for the benefit of the rich, and how it oppresses the poor." Douglas pointed to a proposed reduction in the federal tax on cabarets. Asked he: "How many workingmen go to the Stork Club, the '23' Club,* and other such places, where gay blades like the Senator from Colorado are wont to congregate...
First of all, Ashton says, "there is a shadow . . . cast by the grievances-real or alleged-of workingmen who lived and died a century ago. According to a large number of the scripts [examinations] which it has been my lot to read, the course of English history since about the year 1760 to the setting-up of the welfare state in 1945 was marked by little but toil and sweat and oppression...
...industrial epoch brought a substantial increase in wages, and if the workers were jammed together in rickety "jerry-built" houses, it was not the fault of the capitalists. "The typical builder was a man of small means, a bricklayer or a carpenter . . . The jerry-builders were not capitalists but workingmen...
...still whipped by the chart (one lash for every foot above three climbed up a tree, two lashes for blotting a copybook). New York instituted night schools in 1847, children's classes in hygiene and sanitation in 1885, in sewing, cooking and manual training in 1887, lectures for workingmen...