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...appease undergraduate sidewalk architects, University workmen within the next few days will open a screened window in the fence on the Quinsy Street side of the new library construction project. Through this passers-by will have a complete view of the excavation work...
Next week, when the excavating will be completed, workmen will construct the wooden forms for the cement walls. A few days later the din of concrete mixers will begin. Consisting of three floors, the basement will house rows upon rows of stacks. Each floor is seven feet, six inches high, an easy height for reaching books...
Making every effort to eliminate unnecessary noise, the University hired gasoline justead of the usual steam shovels. Compressed air tools will probably have to be used in cutting the holes in the Widener will for the bridge and funnel connecting Widener with the new building. If possible, workmen will do that part of the job during Christmas vacation, so that the noise of the sir cutters will not disturb classes...
...armed forces had been raised one shilling for wives, one shilling sixpence for the first two children. The dole had been increased from 26 to 30 shillings for man & wife, from 35 to 41 shillings threepence for a family of five. A new wage scale and more liberal workmen's compensation rates had been obtained. Labor also took credit for the Emergency Powers Bill granting the Government power to conscript property...
Thus to deny the validity of the class struggle to workmen who listened silently, or who booed his car as it passed, did not look like clever politics. But, given the structure of Willkie's ideas, his campaign led him inevitably to the factory gates, though it might never lead him to the White House. This hammering at the factory gates was not only a demonstration of personal courage. It was also a campaign for labor votes. But it was above all an integral point in the Willkie argument that he was trying to put across by his actions...