Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grimy little cottages of Clydebank, Scotland there was bunting last week. Policemen on the corners smiled right round the chin straps of their helmets. Down the cobbled street came the sharp squeal of bagpipes. Four hundred workmen, their tool bags slung over their shoulders, tramped behind the pipers and gaily sang "The Cunarder's restarting!" to the tune of "The Campbells are Coming." Through the gates of the John Brown Shipyard they went, and other workmen, busy on the 8,000-ton motorship for the New Zealand trade and several other ships, cheered them as they passed...
...beat, then another and another. With a great squawking and flutter hundreds of angry gulls rose from the shell that had been their home since 1932. No. 534 was under construction again with money provided by the British Government. The 400 men are just a beginning. Soon 3,800 workmen will be employed and other jobs for other thousands are still to come. Money has been definitely promised, too, for the construction of a sistership so that the merged Cunard-White Star can offer a regular weekly service from both New York and Southampton with its giants...
...this new thing as it affected the automobile industry were indisputable: 1 ) It saved Detroit from being confronted with 200,000 new unemployed. 2) It saved automobile makers from a shutdown at the peak of their most promising production season in four years. 3 ) It saved 250,000 workmen in automobile plants from losing over $1,000,000 a day in wages. 4) It saved the Roosevelt Administration from a terrific setback to its Recovery plans...
Before dawn one day last week workmen scurried about a dim, vast room in the Corning Glass Works at Corning. N. Y. For one day they were to be both stagehands and actors. For weeks they had rehearsed every movement they were to make during one eleven-hour performance-the pouring of the 2OO-inch (16 ft. 8 in.) telescope mirror for California Institute of Technology. High as a house in the centre of the room stood a furnace which had been under fire for three weeks. In its great belly was a 34-ton lake of molten pyrex borosilicate...
...motor car manufacturer's contended for the principle that they should not be dictated to by one union and that the workmen be freed from outside coercion. On this point the motor executives won out, but labor, on the other hand, managed to get the process of collective bargaining more clearly defined. Labor has adopted the wise course in deciding to consolidate its position, taking advantage of the gains it has already gotten under the NRA instead of bringing on a strike which would have meant suffering to millions and a setback to the industrial progress of the country...