Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dearborn, the huge Ford factory-town outside Detroit, the New York World sent Newsman Kenneth Campbell. Investigator Campbell found speakeasies (known locally as "blind pigs") doing business almost at the factory gates. Fourteen were spotted in one block. Coffee houses and boarding houses sell liquor steadily to Ford workmen, despite the efforts of the Ford secret police to break up 'legger trade...
...many workmen were jobless throughout the land last week not even the President of the U.S. knew. Government officials made guesses on unemployment, colored more by partisan politics than by positive facts. Senators flayed the Department of Labor for its paltry system of gathering labor statistics. The City of Milwaukee opened soup kitchens. Bread lines stretched out in Brooklyn. Manhattan's Bowery swarmed with sullen idle men. Communists staged demonstrations throughout the U.S. as well as abroad (see p. 21). Though these things combined to make the Hoover Administration acutely unemployment-conscious, none of them answered the question: how many...
Paris. Because of Communist boasts that thousands of workmen would lay down their tools and all the taxicabs of Paris would go on strike for four hours, 20,000 troops and police were ordered on duty, a special police airplane hovered over the city all day. Nothing happened...
Last week workmen in an alcohol plant at Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey's refinery at Linden, N. J., smelled escaping naphtha gas. Before they could telephone a report to the office, something exploded. The air around the building flared and roared. Long blue flames waved out the windows. Men on the ground were knocked flat. Others were blown from roofs and scaffoldings 200 feet away. Flaming men with clothes and flesh in tatters blindly staggered out of the building, ran screaming off into a fence surrounding the reservation, collapsed in the snow. In a few minutes...
There has been much improvement in health legislation, workmen's compensation, child labor laws, regulation of factory conditions...