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Meanwhile in Vienna bronze casters and workmen of the firm of Julius Maschner & Son were working day & night to finish a 500-lb. copper and bronze coffin for the body of the murdered King. There was not time for an entirely original design but Julius Maschner & Son are used to rushing work. In existence for some 300 years, the firm has made coffins for Maria Theresa, the Empress Elizabeth, the murdered Archduke Rudolf of Habsburg, Emperor Franz Josef, the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch of Serbia. In the elaborate neo-Byzantine Kara-Georgevitch family tomb...
Fundamentally, the purpose of this most recent local strike is the same as that of the San Francisco workers. Although the system of hiring dock workers, the bone of contention on the West Coast, differs somewhat in this section of the country, the Boston workmen ask for control of the shipping bureaus which hire the men. They also ask for shorter hours, higher wages, and recognition of unions of the workers' choice...
...Camden, N. J., Mrs. Elsie Barnabie eyed malevolently the workmen who had come to replace the electric light pole on her front lawn, refused even to give her the old one for firewood. As soon as they had dug a clean new hole she plumped herself down, dangled her legs in the hole, delivered an ultimatum: "Now you can't put any pole in at all. It would block our view." Equipped with blankets, food and a blazing fire nearby, she sat stolidly on the edge of the hole all afternoon, all night. Every eight hours a new shift...
Faculty members need have no fear of plaster falling into the midst of one of their assemblies, for workmen have spent the summer renovating University Hall, and the patched and cracking ceiling of the Faculty Room exists no longer...
...laid, work was suspended for lack of funds. For two years and four months No. 534 was an empty, half-finished hull. Then the Cunard and White Star Lines merged. The Government came to No. 534's rescue with a three-million-pound loan. Some 3,800 workmen went back to their jobs. Last week, her hull completed, No. 534 was ready for her great...