Sentences with phrase «railway workers in»

Cawkell also suggested Canada's harsh sentencing approach to heroin originally stems from discrimination against Chinese railway workers in the 1900s that included negative generalizations about their use of opium, Spies noted.

It was stolen right down here in Oslo down at the sea in Norways warmest hole, probably planted there by Swedish Railway workers in the warm thirties.

The tour guides regaled us with the history of the city's working class education — the Workers» Education Association and seamen's and working men's libraries — citing a railway worker in 1945:

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The second quarter will be impacted by strikes by France's national railway workers (SNCF) which affect the transportation by train of certain products and raw materials, and thus operations at certain sites, mainly in advanced materials.

Last year, three executives of a Chinese railway construction company were killed in a terrorist shooting in Mali, and in 2014 a series of kidnappings and attacks targeted Chinese workers in Nigeria, Zambia and Cameroon.

France has been engulfed in protests as students, opposing regionalization of educational services, have joined railway workers, protesting French President Emmanuel Macron's reforms in the field.

FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Corp. are desperate for talented workers and offering bonuses of up to $ 25,000 to fill jobs in...

A «high tea» treat in South Africa, this spicy pastry of sorts originated in India but was transferred to South Africa by railway workers.

The creation of these railways enabled the importation of workers, in order to meet the enormous need for labor.

However, during the winter of 1978 — 79 there were widespread strikes among lorry drivers, railway workers, car workers and local government and hospital workers in favour of higher pay - rises that caused significant disruption to everyday life.

The Railway Workers Union announced the withdrawal of passenger services from Accra to Tema and Accra to Nsawam in December following government's failure to pay their three - month salary arrears.

Finally, she thanked her supporters and campaign workers, with special thanks to rail unions ASLEF and the TSSA who had nominated her, in the form of a ringing endorsement of the 13 year old repeated conference commitment to take the railways back into public ownership.

In an interview with Citi News General Secretary of the Railway Workers Union, Godwill Ntarmah said the salary arrears had still not been paid hence their resolve to continue with the strike action.

The terrain was so bad that in Thailand alone the workers had to build 359 temporary wooden bridges for the railway.

Railway surgeons broke ground in the diagnosis of colorblindness, a cause of fatal accidents when impaired workers failed to correctly see colored signals and lights.

Although we'll never know for sure how they got there, one theory is that they traveled as invisible cargo in migrant construction workers hired to lay railway track from Mozambique to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).

These doctors assembled care packs for use in the field, jammed with supplies and dressings, presaging the modern first - aid kit, and some railway surgeons trained workers in common first - aid techniques.

In 1898, according to numerous accounts and no fewer than three Hollywood movies, two male lions went on a nine - month killing spree around the Tsavo area of Kenya, devouring between 28 and 135 workers building the Kenya - Uganda railway.

Though facts are interspersed throughout — Neruda was a railway worker's son, he had a Dutch ex-wife and ailing young daughter he abandoned — Pablo Larrain is far more interested in Neruda's art and his symbolic place in the politics of Chile, than in chronology of events and biographic details.

In 1883, three Canadian Pacific Railway construction workers were working on the transcontinental rRailway construction workers were working on the transcontinental railwayrailway.

worked on the line and 32 workers lost their lives before the Kuranda Scenic Railway was finally opened for passengers in June 1891.

Begun in 1917, shortly after the 3rd Australian Division captured this strategicallyimportant area, a German defensive point on the Passchendaele - Broodseinde road, Tyne Cot is believed to take its name from a barn which stood beside a railway level crossing in the area and which reminded soldiers of the British Northumberland Fusiliers of a traditional Tyneside worker's cottage: a «Tyne Cot».

WWF may refer to: World Wide Fund for Nature, a nature conservation organization previously named World Wildlife Fund (and still using the former name in some markets) World Wrestling Federation, the name used from 1979 to 2002 by the professional wrestling company now known as WWE Welded wire fabric, a reinforcing material typically used in poured concrete slabs Working Women's Forum, an organisation in India World Water Forum, an international forum for water issues Windows Workflow Foundation, Microsoft's workflow management framework Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway, a former 2 foot gauge railroad in Maine, United States WWF (file format), a campaign to produce PDF electronic documents that forbid printing Words with Friends, a game for Apple and Android platforms Waterside Workers» Federation, a former Australian trade union, now the Maritime Union of Australia

Born the son of a railway worker and a housewife in Havana, Cuba, Alberto Korda went on to photograph such important historical figures and luminaries as Nikita Khrushchev, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean - Paul Sartre, and was awarded the Cuban» Palma de Plata» in 1959 and the National Culture Distinction, Ministry of Culture, Cuba in 1994.

In British Columbia, this includes Japanese internment camps, Chinese railway worker exploitation, and the Komagata Maru incident, which prompted the Canadian government to enact exclusion laws preventing Indians from immigrating.

Chinese railway builders look up from their labors, workers trudge home in the slightly menacing twilight of Pyongyang, a new day or a new season fills the horizon.

[There are] fossils of unfathomable age, and fantastical trees such as Cedar of Lebanon, the Phoenix Palm, and the Methuselah tree, thought to be one of the oldest trees in the World at 4,847 years of age, as well as a railroad tie taken from the Panama Canal Railway, which claimed the lives of between 5,000 to 10,000 workers over its 50 year construction, and wood is salvaged from the remnants of the iconic Atlantic City boardwalk devastated by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Remember the folk tale of John Henry, the railway worker who went head to head in a contest of efficiency with a steam - drill to prove that man was superior to machine?

In 2003, Baron & Budd assisted the non-profit organization Public Justice in Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Ayers, a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding compensation for railroad workers who have been diagnosed with asbestos diseaseIn 2003, Baron & Budd assisted the non-profit organization Public Justice in Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Ayers, a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding compensation for railroad workers who have been diagnosed with asbestos diseasein Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Ayers, a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding compensation for railroad workers who have been diagnosed with asbestos diseases.

Regulation 21 provides an exemption for workers where «continuity of service» is paramount, such as in the railway industry.

Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation for Injuries Act in 1886 (re-enacted in 1892), partly as a response to the rising number of injuries to railway workers.

The search was called off, and the Applicant was found approximately two days after, in a semi-conscious state, by a railway worker doing a routine inspection of the tracks.

Methods and Participants: To test the hypothesis that the presence of a depressive state is associated with future weight gain, a 4 - year prospective occupation - based cohort study was conducted in male adult workers... (N = 1730) at a railway company.