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...Most ingenious solution was in Sloatsburg, N.Y., where little Ramapo Piece Dye Works rented an old Erie locomotive, rolled it on to a siding, piped it to the plant, hired a fireman to keep the engine at full steam...
...lockers, better air-the management came through generously. But when Heller's electors hurried him into asking about wore pay, Sayers said, "I'm afraid you boys don't see the problem whole." George became sullen and remote; his work began to go sour. His own fireman called him a company man. When he asked about resigning from the Employee Plan, his superintendent said: "I'm overlooking this little trouble you had, but I expect you to stay on the committee." And so on-no neater or fairer study of labor relations has been made. Author...
...Frances' death; in New Brunswick, N.J. The three defendants were acquitted of the Lovers' Lane murder of the sister's husband, the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, and his paramour, Mrs. Eleanor Mills. "Willie," a large, pudgy, fuzzy-haired, simple-minded bachelor who liked to wear a fireman's helmet and hang around the firehouse, was counted on by the prosecution to spoil the defense's case when he testified, but proved to be the most lucid of the witnesses. His death probably closed the unsolved case for good; Brother Henry died...
...bodies of the dead, six deep. They tried to pull a man out through a side window: his legs were held tight by the mass of struggling people behind him. In an hour the fire was out and firemen began untangling the piles of bodies. One hard bitten fireman went into hysterics when he picked up a body and a foot came off in his hand. They found a girl dead in a telephone booth, a bartender still standing behind...
...strike Bob Enos made some new friendships. One was with tall, gaunt Clinton S. Golden, onetime railroad fireman, then regional director for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, and the labor leader who has worked most faithfully and intelligently to bring U.S. labor and U.S. management into partnership...