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...motor car, he can see a new playwright* thumbing his nose at him (both hands), wiggling & waggling his fingers. Would Mr. Ford be interested? Many people thought not. He might see himself (unmistakably, although he is called simply "The Old Man") facing a revolt of his workmen with nine months' starvation before them as the works shut down. Previously they have been deadened to sub-mediocrity by the ceaseless sameness of their years of labor; finally, militia marches them to jail. There is also some sex. Moments of engrossing writing; moments of shrewd, imaginative staging scarcely salvage the stormy...
...Building Trades Department from the National Board of Jurisdictional Awards. The latter, now collapsed, was a board composed of civil engineers, architects, contractors and other employers, and of workers in the building trades, which was formed to settle disputes as to what workmen should do what sorts of work and how. Labor accused the other members of the Board of failing to carry out the Board's decisions. Secretary of Labor Davis deplored Labor's withdrawal. A return to the confusion at Babel was predicted if contractors, engineers, architects, et al. are once more obliged to deal separately...
...Henri then went on to state that before the War owners could produce crude oil on an average of 15 kopeks a pood, after paying 20% taxes on profits, 5 to 45% royalties and higher wages for workmen. Now, he continued, the production of crude oil costs double, despite the confiscation of property, no taxation or royalties, lower wages to workmen and lack of strikes, which hitherto were frequent...
...England, a plot of ground was discovered in London near Fleet Street, that had never been built on. Diggers unearthed "15 feet of solid history," relics dating from the Paleolithic period (with a gap from Saxon times to the 13th Century) to the present. ¶Workmen digging for foundations for the new Bank of England building turned up the leather soles of Roman women's shoes. Newspaper stories were written to the effect that styles have changed little...
...building of skyscrapers there are a few details in which science has not supplanted skill. Workmen still play catch with incandescent rivets, which, when heated, are tossed through the air 30, 40, 50 feet to where a nonchalant figure, swaying on a matchstick girder, swings a pail to catch them. Loiterers many floors below stand enchanted, watching the bits of glowing metal leap obligingly like miraculously agile trout into a waiting pan. Loiterers reflect that while science sometimes fails when heavy steel bars drop down, skill is infallible, for no rivet ever falls...