He then joined the Komsomol, and became a shift foreman on a drilling gang.

Zzt leaned out the door and screamed for the shift foreman.

My money is on the shift foreman.

Mr. Najarian, 27, is an advertising-sales support assistant at The New York Times, where his father is a shift foreman for the photoengraving department.

Only one employee, Jerry Messer, 48, a former shift foreman who started at the mill in 1979, remains.

After his marriage to Angie and the birth of the children, he started working in a factory and soon was promoted to a shift foreman.

George Scotti, a shift foreman who had shaken hands and congratulated Mr. Zuckerman when he entered the composing room, said he was glad.

At the age of 17, he took a job at a local Republic Steel plant and rose to the position of shift foreman.

"Natural selection is extremely strong in this world," and results in a shift foreman becoming the virtual "owner of the mine" during his normal 12-hour shift.

Born in Youngstown, Mr. Cafaro went to work in the tube mills of Republic Steel at age 17, rising to the position of shift foreman.