Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unionism not Fordism," demanding a basic $8 six-hour day for workers, better not only than Ford's present $6 eight-hour day, but better than the terms obtained from any other motor company. Third step was to distribute the handbills to the 9,000 River Rouge workmen...
...storm broke over them with a brief 36-hour strike in Jones & Laughlin, which was settled when the management agreed to stake all on a labor election to determine by majority vote whether or not S. W. O. C. should have exclusive representation for all Jones & Laughlin workmen (TIME...
With increasing prosperity, however, sentiments changes. Wages which seemed lavish during the dark hours now appear too small; normal hours--hours which generations of workmen have deemed right--now appear oppressive. The result--strikes. Strikes are not, in themselves, wrong. Many strikes are normal, just and reasonable forms of protection against employer-exploitation and they serve a fair and worthy purpose. But strikes which are organized and financed by a group of publicity experts, labor pirates, professional trouble-makers and highly paid agitators, sitting in richly decorated offices hundreds of miles away; strikes which are planned for months in advance...
...briskly against the bow of what, in the Bath Iron Works, had theretofore been merely Hull No. 272. Cried she with faultless diction: "I christen thee Ranger." The hull slipped smoothly down its chute, flopped into the water, stern first, with a loud splash, and ten minutes later workmen swarmed aboard Ranger, warped back to the dock, to step her 163-ft. duralumin mast...
...shroud. This tiny mishap put additional strain on the other stays, which snapped one by one all through the night. Soon after dawn, off Gloucester, the towering mast finally crashed over the side, carrying all the rigging with it. Said Harold ("Mike") Vanderbilt: "Bad luck!" At Bristol, R. I., workmen prepared to fit Ranger with the mast that used to belong to the old Vanderbilt yacht Rainbow...