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Meanwhile strong possibilities developed that a counter drive was afoot to introduce a company union. It was believed that primary purpose of this move is to offset the startling progress made during the last two weeks by cooks, waitresses and bus boys towards permanent organization...
This week the Duc de Guise, bewhiskered pretender to the vanished throne of France, attempted from his Belgian exile to create an impression that what was afoot was a coup to crown him. "We have decided," royally manifestoed Guise again, as he often has before, "to reconquer the throne of our fathers! The monarchy, while protecting the Church, will not be clerical...
Just what the Belgian Premier had afoot was a deep diplomatic secret. The only rumor into which Washington got its teeth was that there was a plan in the making to have the U. S. take a direct interest in the Bank for International Settlements and supply some capital that could be used for stabilizing currencies abroad. But whether it was this or some entirely different plan, the mere presence of M. van Zeeland was enough to make news, for it opened the possibility of the U. S. finding some new diplomatic playmates in Europe. The British and French...
...Ohio's Mahoning Valley, site of several Republic and Youngstown plants, other maneuvers were afoot. Basic strategy of all three steel companies was to sit tight, wait for back-to-work movements to start among such of their workers as were not actively allied with the S. W. 0. C. strike. They counted on aroused public feeling to assure protection for men going back to work. The Youngstown plants were entirely shut down, in charge of company maintenance men. Republic plants were in partial operation. All were in a state of close siege by strikers. Around the Republic plant...
...North Caucasus region, preparations were afoot last week for yet another treason trial of railway chiefs and others, charged with causing 17 train wrecks in January alone. Many of the accused have already confessed, including one Burstein, head of the Mineralnye Vody traffic department. Pravda, official news-organ of the Communist Party, urged the Soviet to make its enemies "pay with gallons of blood for every drop of workers' blood they shed...