Word: workmen
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...flag was pulled down by workmen when they reported early yesterday morning, but not before the bunting had been observed by a considerable number of students on the way to early classes. No trace of the way to early classes. The perpetrator of this latest protest is unknown...
...Jalapa, State of Vera Cruz, Mexican workmen employed in an American-owned electric light and power plant went on strike demanding, so despatches averred, a 150% increase in pay. The plant is owned by the Higgins Estate Inc. of Manhattan and was managed by William K. Boone, U. S. citizen; but Mr. Boone, unable to effect a settlement with the strikers, was forced to surrender the entire plant to the State authorities, acting on the orders of Governor Jara, and promptly left to file a protest in the U. S. All this took place last March...
...Tunis, regiments of workmen obeyed, more and less satisfactorily, the behests of many and various heads of a large Franco-American mobilization whose collective effort is being expended to uncover Carthage-home of Dido, Hannibal, Hamilcar-and contemporary towns of the Punic civilization, buried Utica, submerged Jerba-the lotus-eaters' island of the ancients...
...British workmen engaged off Scapa Flow in breaking up a scuttled German warship came across the bodies of five German officers and seamen, who were thought not to have been warned when the German crews sank their ships on June...
...bleachers is not so small as he thinks, and it is growing by leaps and bounds. Neither is the five-hour day, of any thing approaching it, an accomplished fact as yet. Let Mr. Alger count, if he can, the number of new golf courses and tennis courts for workmen as well as employers, let him find out from any art institute the amazing number of courses in drawing offered within the past five years for business men, or let him look into the growth of the "little theatre" movement. It is not unreasonable to assume, from present evidence, that...