Word: workmen
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...civilization of the world can be saved only when the working classes realize their opportunities and began an international organization of economic production. The steel industry, for example, must be reorganized so that such department in every plant will be run by a shop committee composed of the workmen themselves, each plant by a works committee, each group of plants by a district committee, each division comprising all the steel plants in a given section of a country, by a division congress, and finally the entire steel industry of the world by a world steel congress...
Word comes from Budapesth of the discovery by some workmen of a "genuine" Leonardo da Vinci, supposedly lost for decades, and the world of art, thoroughly sophisticated by now, stops very properly to make sure before applauding. Too many great "finds" have been hailed with delight by the dealers, and praised to the skies, only to turn out to be, "sells", much to the discomfiture of the critics and the joy of the uninitiated...
...never cease! One of our peons, while digging for potsherds on the outskirts of the university site the other day, suddenly felt the ground give way beneath him; and before he knew it, he found himself in a large hollow space at some depth underground. His shouts attracted fellow-workmen, who helped him out with a rope and brought Senor Alvarotez, Leon Cavallo, and myself to the scene of the discovery. With torches and shovels we descended into the opening and proceeded to explore...
...Germany", he said in the course of his speech, "has not started to get back to normal. The country is full of uncertainty and disunity. It is torn between the military leaders and captains of industry on the one hand, and the workmen and radicals on the other. Germany feels badly beaten, and its only unity is hatred of France, where as a result there is universal fear of Germany...
...much more probable solution, however, is that the Astronomical Department has decided to restore the old sun dial. Unfortunately, the untutored workmen placed the noon mark some hundred odd degrees out of position, and the Department has generously given the artists a vacation until the sun shall have caught up with the dial. In the meantime the answer to the question, what goes on, remains as it has been for the last two weeks: nothing...