Working. Part 43

Several years ago, the University of Wisconsin produced a series of films (in which I was the interviewer) dealing with people who had achieved some form of recognition in their respective occupations. It was for showing before groups of ghetto children. The results of a survey indicated that the most admired subject was the lawyer-realtor-accountant, who spoke of his possessions-and showed them. He was astonishingly inarticulate-or inhibited-about his work. The least popular subject was a distinguished black sculptor, who in his studio enthusiastically talked of his work, and showed it in loving detail. The survey further revealed that the children were avid television viewers and remarkably knowledgeable about the commercials of the moment.

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"It's not a group of people. It's a division within a corporation. The plant manager came from Van Nuys, California. Production managers came from the South, and one came from the East. They came here with the ideas of how to make a faster buck through the backs of the workers, as I see it."

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In Chicago, the Yellow Cab Company and the Checker Cab Company, under one ownership, use the above described type of car, and comprise most of the cabs in the city.

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"Most truckdrivers are generally quite courteous. They'll drive as far to the right as possible, so if they're moving slowly other traffic can get around them."

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An inst.i.tution for the mentally disturbed.

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Chicago Transit Authority

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"The long hauler, if they give him a pickup to go over to Detroit from Chicago, he feels it's a waste of time, no trip at all. He wants to load New York. He'd leave Chicago, drop a drop in Cleveland and a drop in Pittsburgh, and peddle the rest of it off in New York. Once a dispatcher told Jim-he's a little over fifty, been long haul for twenty-five years-'We have a little box here, not a load, weighs thirty-five hundred pounds, do me a favor, pick it up.' Jim says, 'I don't have room for this box and it's goin' the other way. I'll pick it up next time I'm in New York.' He was heading for St. Louis. It takes a certain kind of individual that thinks in thousands of miles so casually, as you and I'll pick something up from my neighbor here next week."

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"That's a Peterbilt, the Cadillac of trucks. It's a great, big. long-nosed outfit. The tractor alone costs 30,000 dollars."

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Frank Fitzsimmons, president of the Teamsters Union.

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The conversation took place before Jimmy Hoffa was granted a pardon by President Nixon and long before the Teamsters Union came out in support of the Committee for the Re-election of the President.

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The late U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois.

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a.s.sorted stock.

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An upper-middle-cla.s.s suburb north of Chicago.

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It is a local of the UAW.

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Her husband, an artist and professor of art at a local branch of the state university.

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Carolyn Horton, her mentor.

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A far North Sh.o.r.e suburb of Chicago; its most upper U.

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"Livermore said, 'I own what I believe to be the controlling stock of IBM and Philip Morris.' So I asked, 'Why do you bother with anything else?' He answered 'I only understand stock. I can't bother with businesses.' So I asked him, 'Do men of your kind put away ten million dollars where n.o.body can ever touch it?' He looked at me and answered, 'Young man, what's the use of having ten million if you can't have big money?'" (Arthur Robertson's recollections in Hard Times (New York: Pantheon Books, 1970.)

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"The Nixon administration has accelerated the movement toward patient, prudent evaluation, particularly in the office of Economy Opportunity . . . Prominent among the victims was the OEO, flagship of old ways but also home of the new" (Jack Rosenthal, New York Timers, February 4, 1973).

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American Federation of Government Employees.

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