Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true ,that the firm of Davis, Michel, Yaeger & McGinley specializes in appearing for injured railroad workmen. There is a vast difference between the shyster type, who use tricky methods, and the high type of lawyers (and they are too few) who are satisfied to let the lucrative corporation practice go by the boards and fight for justice to the worker...
...that the British trade unions have been so slow to manifest any kind of sympathy with their fellow-workmen in Russia? Their indifference is a shocking example of the blinding effect of class bias on the great mass of the people...
...factory-$175,000), walls, floor will be of noise-absorbing material. To eliminate the communication of vibration, all machinery will be insulated where it touches floor or wall. Where irritating noises cannot be controlled by insulation, they will be neutralized by other noises (TIME, Dec. 15). Workmen will hear only enough sound to prevent them from being distracted by complete silence. They will be illuminated by constant artificial daylight containing a small percent of healthy ultraviolet, will breathe air which has been washed, heated, humidified. The ten million cubic feet of air will be changed every ten minutes. Contaminating gases...
Mightier than the Soviet Supreme Court is the ZIK. The Presidium (standing committee) of ZIK met in Moscow last week to temper Red justice with Red mercy. During the previous night, at 11:27 p. m., the Supreme Court justices (including two workmen) had brought in their verdict upon the eight engineers accused of plotting with prominent foreigners (see p. 20) and specifically with the French General Staff to overthrow the Soviet State (TIME, Nov. 24; Dec. 8). With a glass of hot tea at his elbow, Presiding Justice Vyshinsky faced the microphone, told all Russia for an hour...
Throughout the week pious workmen, specially purified, were furiously busy building in the Fountain Garden of Chiyoda Castle the pavilion in which Her Majesty the Empress Nagako will be delivered. The pavilion will contain a Waiting Room for His Majesty and Dr. Kirikuro Ikki, Minister of the Court...