Word: workman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the address, Mr. Fechtner explained in a short interview the workman's point of view in the Waltham strike, of which he was a leader. "During the past two years", said Mr. Fechtner, "the wages have been reduced 40 percent. When it was announced that there would be a further 10 percent reduction, the workers, though unorganized, universally struck...
...factory. From then on he shot ahead with the rapidity and brilliance of a meteor. In 1911 he became President of the U. S. Steel Corporation- probably the greatest executive position in the indusrial world. His success is no doubt due to his thorough training as a workman. At the age of 61 he is still an ardent yachtsman and lover of outdoor life...
...families of the 260,000 schoolchildren of Paris. The present school-hours are 8:30 to 11:30 a. m. and 1 to 4 p. m. Was the hour and a half lunch-hour satisfactory to the mama and papa or little Jacques or Suzanne? Where papa was a workman he said "Mais non!" He came home at 12. Why should his children come home half an hour earlier? The working classes voted solidly for a 12 to 2 lunch-hour, giving papa a chance to see his child and the child a chance to eat and digest the daily...
...dignity and poise and of no pretentious. For five years she edited The Delineator. She is modest and she is ambitious. Her new novel,* appearing serially now in Everybody's is called The Devonshers and is a combination of mystery, adventure and the great West. She is a careful workman, spends weeks of hard work revising a manuscript that does not satisfy her. She is, of course, thoroughly American, and she possesses a curious sort of pioneer quality. Just what that quality is you would have to meet her to know. It is this quality that I imagine you will...
...paper. The conflict between capital and labor is not a question of production, but one of distribution of earnings. To work more and to produce more-both capital and labor are agreed upon this, but, how much is to go to the capitalist and how much to the workman-there is the inevitable conflict...