Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Wobblies (a striking Chinese dock-worker unable to pronounce the letter "W" referred to his union as the "I Wobble Wobble" within earshot of a reporter) centers on the spirit, the tactics and the hopes, not the history, of the group. Bird tracked down a dozen men and women who were members, organizers, agitators, and they explain a 15-year campaign that was as much religion as politics. Dominic Mignone, so old and thin in the movie that it's hard to imagine he once worked in the mills, recalls the Lawrence struggle: "It came time for the strike...
...Industrial Worker of the World...
...Detroit worker had done better when he had a job, he would not now be looking...
...that look like Soviet tanks, trucks and armored cars. Staff Sergeant Donald Fogal, 36, tank commander (foreman in an auto parts plant), and his regular gunner, Sergeant Ron Pospisil, 31 (Xerox representative), have to run through the qualification course with a pickup driver, Corporal Victor Feliciano, 32 (nursing home worker), and loader, Corporal Terry Bell, 27 (prison teacher). They all work up a sweat piling the tank full of machine-gun ammunition and 105-mm shells that weigh 38 lbs. apiece...
...lack of interpreters at the hospital has forced many Haitian residents to go to Dorchester to seek Creole-speaking doctors, Julian Saintelot, a case worker at the Cambridge Haitian-American Association, said yesterday...