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...Another workman said after the accident that the scaffolding had a tendency to sway. When one of the painters started to remove a screen from a third floor window, he lost his balance and grabbed a wooden guardrail which then broken...
Last month, in an auto-parts plant in Wales, a workman walked off the job because he felt his foreman lacked training. He was suspended; 400 fellow workers then struck in sympathy, and eventually 20,000 workers were idled. When two car bodies came off the Jaguar line poorly polished and were sent back to be redone, polishers said no, and Jaguar was shut down for four weeks. Nor is the auto industry unique. Last week thousands of London commuters were fuming over a railroad slowdown called against the union leader's orders...
Then the group entered the building that was designed to "lead Harvard architecture out of the dark ages." A workman led them into an elevator and pushed the button for the ninth floor. Nothing happened. "Dirt," the workman explained. "This is the worst part--cleaning it up." "Perhaps," a white-haired lady sighed, "it will look better when it's tidy...
Spokesman for Vappi and Company, general contractors for the study center, emphasized yesterday that the dispute is between the two unions and does not involve Vappi. "We don't care who does the job as long as its done," one workman said...
...second workman, Joseph R. Correnti, was treated for smoke inhalation at Cambridge City Hospital and released...