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Point Counterpoint. In Tredegar, Wales, 300 clothing-factory workmen went on a 1½-hour strike because they did not like the music played to keep them happy...
...grease drippings. The company had none, so it issued the men smocks used regularly in the paint department. The boys began to jeer: "Next they will give you guys berets." Another worker catcalled: "Hello, Floozy!" Thus subjected to mortification, extreme mental cruelty, great mental anguish, the ten besmocked workmen walked off the job. They were followed by 146 other workers. Before the day was out, the company had to send 14,000 employees home...
...west wall, through which the water will enter the tank, shows two huge hands cupping the inflow, and workmen and engineers presenting the water to the people in construction helmets. The south wall is dominated by a huge, bewildered-looking Negro. Near him stand a dried-up old woman-Rivera's idea of the Mexican aristocracy-and a boy leading a monkey. The monkey, Rivera says, "represents the Mexican middle class and also intellectuals, not excluding many politicians. During the 19th Century, they tried to imitate French culture and the English way of life, and now in the 20th...
When pinned down, the workmen were for the most part at a loss. As one carpenter put it, "Gee, son, they've already given them to the man I'd pick...
...Bombing Manchuria & China: "We do not believe the extension of [the war] by bombing would get decisive results. We have about 200 miles of enemy supply lines to workmen now and you would only extend that length back into Manchuria . . . Normally, you think of strategic bombing as going after the sources of production. The sources of production in this case are very largely out of reach of any strategic bombing because they are not even in China [i.e., they are largely in Russia...