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James J. Davis

The Iron Puddler

My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It

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Life in these mills is a terrible life, the reformers say. Men are ground down to scrap and are thrown out as wreckage. This may be so, but my life was spent in the mills and I failed to discover it. I went in a stripling and grew into manhood with muscled arms big as a bookkeeper's legs. The gases, they say, will destroy a man's lungs, but I worked all day in the mills and had wind enough left to toot a clarinet in the band. I lusted for labor, I worked and I liked it. -from Scene in a Rolling Mill In 1921, JAMES JOHN DAVIS was appointed Secretary of Labor by President Warren Harding, and would go on to also… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-59605-733-3
  • EAN: 9781596057333
  • Produktnummer: 2199975
  • Verlag: Cosimo Classics
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Seitenangabe: 284 S.
  • Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D1.6 cm 326 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 326

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