Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...provided for by the Esch-Cummings Act two months ago, was not even appointed until the country was in the grip of the outlaw strike, and so far it has produced no constructive results. In the meantime the traffic tie-up caused by the strike continues critical. All the workmen, even the Brotherhoods themselves, are losing patience...
...point, when Mr. Whiting Williams, Vice-President of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Corporation, will tell of his experiences as a day laborer in various mines and steel plants throughout the country. Mr. Williams, who was in charge of the employment relations of his firm, a firm employing 3,500 workmen, recently gave up his position, leaving everything behind him except $25 and lived the life of a working man for several months, taking whatever jobs he could find. In this way he was able to learn the workingman's point of view...
...village near Tours in 1514. He settled in Antwerp in 1549. Tradition affirms that he was first interested in typography as a result of a wounded arm. His workmanship earned for him a reputation as the best printer of his time. In 1562, while Plantain himself was absent, his workmen printed an heretical pamphlet, as a result of which his movable equipment was seized and sold. He succeeded in establishing a new press which was later destroyed by the Spaniards who plundered the town...