Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glamor of railroading is summed up in two words-Casey Jones. Mention these words to any engineer, fireman or roundhouse worker, and he will immediately be your friend. If he doesn't start singing, he will tell you a pack of grand stories...
After they buried Casey Jones, an old roundhouse Negro worker, Wallace Saunders, began to chant a song about him. In the railroad yards between New Orleans and Chicago, whites and blacks added verse after verse to Casey's epitaph. Soon there were some 50 verses and many a chorus. Eddie Newton and T. Lawrence Seibert converted them into a popular hit. Extracts...
...Elton Mayo, Professor of Industrial Research in the Harvard Business School will lecture on "Maladjustment of the Industrial Worker" at 7.45 o'clock tomorrow evening in Emerson...
Died. George Henry Jones, 56, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, of Pelham, N. Y.; from intestinal obstruction after a lingering illness, in Manhattan. Mr. Jones, native of Carthage, N.Y., was successively mill boy, factory worker, messenger, typewriter salesman, Standard Oilman (35 years). A tireless worker, he abjured recreations until his soth birthday when his fellow directors gave him golf clubs. He was elected to the chairmanship in 1925; simultaneously his health began to fail...
...worker with him for the U. S. Radium Corp., Dr. Edward Lehman, died much more quickly from the radium poisoning. Only two others, French researchers, have died similar deaths...