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...sandstone and quartz which were 99% pure silica. Every blast of dynamite puffed deadly silica dust down the throats of sappers who wore no protective masks over their mouths & noses. Rapidly men began to die of silicosis, pneumonia and tuberculosis. When workmen refused to go into the tunnel heads, foremen, according to subsequent court testimony, often clubbed them on. But the foremen dutifully followed their gangs into the dust, and many of them died too. According to the People's Press, Rinehart & Dennis, tunnel builders for New-Kanawha Power Co. contracted with a distant undertaker to bury casualties...
...Gorky automotive works the Brothers Ivan and Feodor Kriachkov assassinated their fellow worker Ivan Schmerov because he had speeded up his daily output 200%. Tried before a military tribunal, they were sentenced to death. In the coal mine at Stalino two assistant foremen, a checkweigher and an electrician were arrested for the murder of a fast-working Stakhanovite who had peached on them to the Bolshevik labor boss as "opposed to Stakhanovism." In a nearby mine a worker shot at his Stakhanovite mine manager, missed. Most spectacular blow against Stakhanovism is supposed to have been struck by Engineer S. Plotnikov...
...broadcasting service prides itself on music classes by radio. There are public concerts by the Music School faculty and every spring a May Festival at Ann Arbor. The University holds institutes for parent-teacher clubs, for women's clubs, for owners of timberland. It gives courses for industrial foremen, for meter-readers. It is a big brother to the public school system, arranging examinations, promoting orchestras and debating clubs. The State relies on it for research on highways, conservation, fisheries...
Skilled workers and foremen...
Seventy-five thousand unorganized cattle bellowed an anguished protest. A few coatless clerks of the stock yards and commission houses, a few foremen and superintendents in shirt sleeves-in all, perhaps, 200 men-went down into the pens to water 75,000 thirsty cattle. The Government dared not hire men to care for its 50,000 head for fear of being accused of strikebreaking. So all day the foremen and white collar workers labored alone. The thirsty beasts balked at being driven from pen to pen, at being sorted out by inexperienced hands. All day long the air above...