RE: Re: Ken lived into his 90sfairlyobscureFebruary 25 2024, 16:26:12 UTC
I got my grandmother's water goblets. Wasn't asked before they arrived, but nice to have something of hers.
My mother offered me her engagement/wedding rings , but I told her she should keeping wearing them.
I liked the some little rupee salt containers with rupee spoons for serving, but those were silver, so they probably melted them down with the silverware when the price of silver went crazy. Not very sentimental people. I was glad to manage to keep two childhood books for myself. Bought myself copies of 11 other books I grew up with about 30 years ago. To treasure. Perhaps staying home in Aug 1968 had to do with the presence of a house guest and not leaving her alone in the house. She was a bit scatter-brained. My father was very angry about the use of union pall bearers for his mother. He expected he and his brother to be among other relatives to carry her. Perhaps PJ and Raymond were tall enough. Don't know if her brothers or his Aunt Helen's husband were still alive. He said, when his father died, his Aunt Helen's husband was the only male relative to offer help. Including offering to take him into his candy business and leave it to him eventually. But he preferred AT&T.
Re: Re: Ken lived into his 90sdomiobrienFebruary 25 2024, 17:02:32 UTC
Interesting. I was told that Aunt Helen was not actually a relative, but an old friend of Aunt Agnes. My father told me his father's boss offered him a job in the jewelry business, but his mother wanted him to stay in high school, since he gotten into Brooklyn Tech. Then he was going to be an apprentice machinist and signed up for the apprenticeship and the union, but then went down to enlist in the Army, and a guy with a different uniform with wings on it came out and asked the guys waiting in line if any of them were good at math and science, and the Brooklyn Tech guys raised their hands, and then they asked "Want to learn to fly planes?" so he joined the Army Air Corps. He said when he got home and told his mother he was going to a pilot, she got upset and they called the doctor to sedate her.
1947 telephone strikefairlyobscureFebruary 25 2024, 17:42:02 UTC
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Search 1947 Telephone strike Article Talk Language Download PDF Watch Edit The 1947 Telephone strike was a five-week long, nation-wide labor stoppage in the United States by the National Federation of Telephone Workers (NFTW) and other smaller unions that started on April 7, 1947.[1] The workers, mostly switchboard operators, were protesting long hours and low pay by AT&T, the Bell Telephone Company, the New York Telephone Company, and others.[1][2][3] There were demonstrations throughout the United States with several instances of police arresting passive strikers.[4] The mass of the strike was calculated to be equivalent to 10,100,000 man-days.[2] In total around 370,000 workers struck.[5]
23 days into the strike in New York, non-NFTW union officials and the New York Telephone Company settled their demands, and 40,000 workers began working again the next day. At the same time, the Bell Telephone Company reached an agreement with non-NFTW union officials in Pennsylvania, and 6,000 maintenance workers resumed their jobs the next day as well. These Pennsylvanian workers received a $4 per week wage increase rather than the $12 per week they had originally demanded.[1]
The workers in the NFTW were able to strike for five weeks without having to break and return to work because of the financial support totaling $128,000 given to them by both the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.[6]
The strike eventually caused the dissolution of the NFTW, which inspired the creation of the Communications Workers of America union.[6][7]
References See also Last edited 6 months ago by LoomCreek RELATED ARTICLES Communications Workers of America North American labor union Wayne L. Horvitz American labor negotiator List of US strikes by size Wikipedia
Re: 1947 telephone strikedomiobrienFebruary 25 2024, 18:26:39 UTC
I find it interesting that we are talking through a Russian-based social media site which is used by relatively few Americans now. My main social media site is FaceBook, annoying as it is, because so many people I know are on it. Though the list of old friends and relatives is shorter, because my generation seems to be dying not quite like flies, but certainly earlier than many of us expected. Of course, US life expectancy has been falling for a few years now.
RE: Re: 1947 telephone strikefairlyobscureFebruary 25 2024, 19:42:13 UTC
Processed food. Antibiotics, microwaves, drugs, legal and not. Lack of sunshine, micro plastics, excessive medical intervention, myocarditis, crime, stupidity, air, water, and NOW they're claiming NO amount of alcohol is good for you! I'm sure you can list a few more causes . Artificial sweeteners are another. And hydrogenation- who woulda thought margarine was BAD for you!? My mom, like many people, told me nuts were bad because they were high in fat! And now nuts are the snack of choice, imagine, GOOD fats. Of course, we had peanut butter with solidified fats to eat with whole milk and chocolate syrup. If I wanted a pecan half I was expected to eat a round of sugar, corn syrup and green dye with it! I decided long ago that cigarettes and alcohol weren't worth the price and that cigarettes stank. Now I have to contend with all the conflicting thoughts on coffee! Old time, coffee was 6 ounces and warm. I think warm/hot is an overlooked benefit of coffee and tea. Like Ms frizzle says, heat is an ingredient! There are times you should print an upraised right on first, Instead of an exclamation mark
Re: Re: 1947 telephone strikedomiobrienFebruary 25 2024, 20:19:59 UTC
My mother was a health-food nut big on Adele Davis and on Gaylord Hauser, so the peanut butter was fresh ground from the health food store and we used butter and olive oil, not margarine (also known as "oley", and and we always had nuts on hand, but she liked to buy them in the shell so we needed to use a nutcracker. But my father was a big chocolate milk, Mallowmars, Ritz with jelly and cream cheese, and saltines with butter or cheddar fan and lots of sandwiches and he preferred white bread or rye, and loved crumb buns and crumb cake. And peppered salami. I remember the awful sugar-corn syrup homemade candies. And she always thought processed foods essentially lasted forever, even after opening, and I had to sneak out to put foods years gone by in the garbage can. My father and I threw much stuff from the pantry after she died. And there were hundreds of stockpiled tubes of toothpaste, toothbrushes, etc. we gave to charity. And brand new socks and underwear and nightgowns and sheet sets she'd bought on sale. I saw Mallowmars in the store the other day and memories came flooding in.
RE: Re: Re: 1947 telephone strikefairlyobscureFebruary 25 2024, 21:13:17 UTC
We had SKIPPY! Butter was used for homemade icing, dipping tiny boiled potatoes and lobster in. Also for basting meat on the grill .we had margarine on the table. It used to come in round pounds and we had a ceramic covered dish for it. We never had olive oil. My mother had a big can of solid crisco for frying my father's eggs and for making pie crust. We had liquid crisco oil as well there was a can to save the bacon grease from the huge quantities of bacon we ate. We had white bread bacon grease sandwiches. Very crunchy. Long after I moved out, my mother started making whole wheat bread and , thinking it was healthy, buying safflower oil. I believed her on that one, much to my regret. My mother served minute rice three times a year, with her 3 ethnic dishes. Again, long after her next emptied, she started buying brown rice and actually cooking it. She called me to complain that her grandchildren were being fed minute rice. I told her that's all the kid's mom HAD in her childhood and she had no right to complain about it, given her example. The solid crisco was also used to fry Pillsbury hot roll mix, Bisquick pancakes, hamburgers on Saturday night (crisp!) and fried sliced potato rounds with the hamburgers. Desserts were an occasional Bisquick crumb cake and various drakes cakes- Yankee doodles or a danish ring. At least we had protein for breakfast. We had oatmeal cookies from sunshine and chocolate chip cookies from Nabisco. Also sugar wafers from Nabisco. Cereal was an occasional evening snack, eaten from the box. No nuts in it. No nuts for snacks, unless entertaining. Big can of Spanish peanuts for guests. It had a good price. She gave the big cans as hostess gifts, too.
Re: Russian spy!domiobrienFebruary 26 2024, 22:02:05 UTC
The caricaturist who did the sketches of Jack and Nita at the Hahn Officers club-- and others at O clubs and NCO clubs all over the place-- did turn out to be a Russian spy. I still have, those, reframed. Have you seen the 9 Chickweed Lane cartoon strip. Generations of women in one family, a WWII USO singer, her daughter a biology professor, her daughter a pianist and ballerina. There are WWII pilot and spy sequences in the strip.
Wasn't asked before they arrived, but nice to have something of hers.
My mother offered me her engagement/wedding rings , but I told her she should keeping wearing them.
I liked the some little rupee salt containers with rupee spoons for serving, but those were silver, so they probably melted them down with the silverware when the price of silver went crazy.
Not very sentimental people. I was glad to manage to keep two childhood books for myself. Bought myself copies of 11 other books I grew up with about 30 years ago. To treasure.
Perhaps staying home in Aug 1968 had to do with the presence of a house guest and not leaving her alone in the house. She was a bit scatter-brained.
My father was very angry about the use of union pall bearers for his mother. He expected he and his brother to be among other relatives to carry her. Perhaps PJ and Raymond were tall enough. Don't know if her brothers or his Aunt Helen's husband were still alive.
He said, when his father died, his Aunt Helen's husband was the only male relative to offer help. Including offering to take him into his candy business and leave it to him eventually. But he preferred AT&T.
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The 1947 Telephone strike was a five-week long, nation-wide labor stoppage in the United States by the National Federation of Telephone Workers (NFTW) and other smaller unions that started on April 7, 1947.[1] The workers, mostly switchboard operators, were protesting long hours and low pay by AT&T, the Bell Telephone Company, the New York Telephone Company, and others.[1][2][3] There were demonstrations throughout the United States with several instances of police arresting passive strikers.[4] The mass of the strike was calculated to be equivalent to 10,100,000 man-days.[2] In total around 370,000 workers struck.[5]
23 days into the strike in New York, non-NFTW union officials and the New York Telephone Company settled their demands, and 40,000 workers began working again the next day. At the same time, the Bell Telephone Company reached an agreement with non-NFTW union officials in Pennsylvania, and 6,000 maintenance workers resumed their jobs the next day as well. These Pennsylvanian workers received a $4 per week wage increase rather than the $12 per week they had originally demanded.[1]
The workers in the NFTW were able to strike for five weeks without having to break and return to work because of the financial support totaling $128,000 given to them by both the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.[6]
The strike eventually caused the dissolution of the NFTW, which inspired the creation of the Communications Workers of America union.[6][7]
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Lack of sunshine, micro plastics, excessive medical intervention,
myocarditis, crime, stupidity, air, water, and NOW they're claiming NO amount of alcohol is good for you!
I'm sure you can list a few more causes . Artificial sweeteners are another. And hydrogenation- who woulda thought margarine was BAD for you!?
My mom, like many people, told me nuts were bad because they were high in fat! And now nuts are the snack of choice, imagine, GOOD fats. Of course, we had peanut butter with solidified fats to eat with whole milk and chocolate syrup.
If I wanted a pecan half I was expected to eat a round of sugar, corn syrup and green dye with it!
I decided long ago that cigarettes and alcohol weren't worth the price and that cigarettes stank.
Now I have to contend with all the conflicting thoughts on coffee!
Old time, coffee was 6 ounces and warm. I think warm/hot is an overlooked benefit of coffee and tea.
Like Ms frizzle says, heat is an ingredient! There are times you should print an upraised right on first, Instead of an exclamation mark
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Long after I moved out, my mother started making whole wheat bread and , thinking it was healthy, buying safflower oil. I believed her on that one, much to my regret. My mother served minute rice three times a year, with her 3 ethnic dishes.
Again, long after her next emptied, she started buying brown rice and actually cooking it.
She called me to complain that her grandchildren were being fed minute rice. I told her that's all the kid's mom HAD in her childhood and she had no right to complain about it, given her example.
The solid crisco was also used to fry Pillsbury hot roll mix, Bisquick pancakes, hamburgers on Saturday night (crisp!) and fried sliced potato rounds with the hamburgers.
Desserts were an occasional Bisquick crumb cake and various drakes cakes-
Yankee doodles or a danish ring.
At least we had protein for breakfast.
We had oatmeal cookies from sunshine and chocolate chip cookies from Nabisco. Also sugar wafers from Nabisco.
Cereal was an occasional evening snack, eaten from the box. No nuts in it. No nuts for snacks, unless entertaining. Big can of Spanish peanuts for guests. It had a good price. She gave the big cans as hostess gifts, too.
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I don't quite get the ads here. If they want us to buy something, shouldn't they advertise in English?
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