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...Pittsburgh plant of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. workmen banked the huge beehive coke ovens; coke production would be cut by 75% in a few days...
...Freedom" (TIME, May 3) and United Front organizations in at least six northern Italian cities. They claim the organization of a wave of strikes which began in March and at one point called out from 40,000 to 50,000 men. Through widespread circulation of clandestine newspapers and through workmen's organizations, they have built up a political consciousness from which leaders of a new Italy may come...
...days after Roosevelt spoke, worried Pope Pius XII, addressing 25,000 workmen brought to Vatican City from all parts of Italy, warned: "Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord." He decried anti-religious propaganda among the people, inveighed against labor-employer strife, condemned "social" revolution as "a mere show incapable of realization in fact." More than ever it was apparent that the hope for the underground, and for all Italian democrats, lies first in unconditional surrender, followed by military occupation. After that, if the Allies are wiser than they were in North...
Square Pegs. Before 1940, no matter how well prepared a handicapped worker was, he had a poor chance of a job. Employers not only had their pick of the labor supply-in many cases workmen's compensation laws made such employment risky. For example, if a worker already blind in one eye lost the sight of the other in a factory accident, the company might have to pay a great deal for total disability...
Once relations were established (and the chief had his watch), Kehoe could usually get several hundred workmen under a "dobashie," or native foreman, to clear the site and set up native huts. He paid them off in silver rupees. Some posts are several weeks' trek from Assam, and food and supplies are sent out by plane...