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...flag atop his factory. Later, in the huge Government motor transport depot at Slough known as The White Elephant, he headed the workers' ironbound union. The Government dared not fire him for fear of arousing his followers. Solution: they sacked the whole kit & boodle-7,800 workingmen-just to get rid of Wal. Whereupon Wal dressed them all up as clergymen in surplices and paraded them through the grounds before a huge white cloth elephant, which they pompously mourned as dead...
Harry Bennett: "I told Martin he could come out here any time to talk about wages, workingmen and working conditions in any plants connected with or supplying the Ford Motor Company. At no time did Martin and I discuss unions. However, I told newspapermen in Martin's presence that if we need a union-U.A.W. or any other-we'll get one. Right now we don't need one. If our men want to organize in any union they'll do it and that's all right with...
...Tucker's "study of real wages of workingmen" convinced him that the most rapid improvement in their purchasing power occurred from 1864 to 1873, 1880 to 1892, 1922 to 1929. He found that the first and third periods were also marked by the greatest concentration of wealth. This led him to postulate that concentration of wealth derived from legitimate business profits is a concomitant of general prosperity, while concentration from speculation (as in 1929) or war profits (as in 1863-65) is not. His inference: "Any measures that may be taken to diminish the concentration of wealth and income...
Akron naturally has rubber odors [TIME, June 6]. It is hardly fair, however, to refer to the "pervading stench" of Akron. ... If you must insist upon enlarging on the factory odors and the "flatlands" you should in fairness mention the odorless highlands of Goodyear Heights, one of our outstanding workingmen's developments of East Akron...
...Muffler. Wags have said: "In England everything stops for tea." And contemporary wags have added that British workingmen would stop a revolution for a soccer Cup Final. As the soccer season last week reached a point something like the Fourth of July in U. S. baseball, discussions in pubs and clubs rose to a fine pitch of excitement. Although Brentford, a London club, was leading the First Division, with 14 wins and seven draws for a total of 35 points,† another London club, Arsenal, was widely fancied to end the season...