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...group would also like to seek workman's compensation, especially in the science areas, as well as a tax-exempt status for salaries, an organizer said. She pointed to last year's cyclotron explosion, when several injured teaching fellows received no compensation...
...industrious Englishman has long been getting less so. "I stand by my class," said the workman in Shaw's Major Barbara, "and do as little as I can so's to leave arf the job for me fellow workers." Forty years ago, Dean Inge of St. Paul's had begun to doubt "whether nature intended the Englishman to be a moneymaking animal." Recently, an American efficiency expert took a look at the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and wryly reported that the British work force "takes a substantial part of its wages not in money...
...tragic vision in the New World while still using traditional casting techniques, David Smith seemed to gain strength from wrestling directly with the raw materials of the steel age. His own work, Smith insisted, should be viewed both with the eye of a poet and of a workman, and he was proud that he had mastered his craft. A dropout from Ohio University after his freshman year, Smith studied art under John Sloan in New York, but he had also been a riveter in Studebaker's South Bend plant, assembled locomotives and M7 tanks during World...
...nurse tending tuberculous patients is entitled to workman's compensation if she catches the disease, for TB is undeniably a hazard of her job. But what about a truck driver who contracts TB while confined in his cab with a constantly coughing helper...
Such was the fate of Julius Paider, driver of a Manhattan moving van. Ruling in his favor, the state workman's compensation board declared that Paider's sickness was "due to the nature of the employment." But the New York State Supreme Court's appellate division disagreed. Voiding Paider's award, the court ruled that "it was the co-employee and not the occupation that caused the disease...