American Startling London
BY RAF.ID BUILDING. LONDON, Sept. 12. Under the management ol a “young American named Huntingdon, the London Metropolitan Railroad’s new electric power station is raising its fine proportions. at Neasden in such rapid fashion as to make English .contractors and builders stare. It is all being done with British workmen, too, whom Mr Huntingdon says only need proper .handling to work as hard as Americans.
The bricklayers struck this week because Mr Huntingdon demanded that they be at the top instead ol the bottom of the ladder when the hooter gave the signal to begin work Mr Huntingdon offered them one cent per hour less if they preferred to be- . gin at the bottom of the ladder, and g •they, accepted it. Men who thought it a good day s •work to lay 500 bricks now lay 1500 and eveiv'2ooo under the of bonuses and with American i° v 1 saving devices. '“ 0
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1054, 23 November 1903, Page 1
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