Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conference between the United Mine Workers and the bituminous coal operators closed last week in Miami, Fla. It was a complete dud. The union miners voted solidly against a flexible wage scale; the operators voted solidly against renewing the Jacksonville agreement of 1924 (five-day week, six-hour day, $7.50 daily wage for unskilled labor). Big-jawed John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, will now try to reach separate agreements with the operators by districts. In Illinois and Indiana, where the operators can afford to pay high wages, he may be successful. But there will undoubtedly...
...warn the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in the gravest terms that there are limits beyond which it is dangerous to drive public opinion in this country and that the continuance of such acts as here complained of must sooner or later render inevitable the abrogation of the trade agreement,* the stipulations of which have been so flagrantly violated, and even the severance of ordinary diplomatic relations...
Since the U. S. Senate has refused to ratify the Lausanne Treaty (TIME, Jan. 31), Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, able U. S. High Commissioner to Turkey, busied himself at Angora last week and was reported to have signed an agreement with the Kemalist Government temporarily extending once more the commercial modus vivendi between Turkey and the U. S. which would otherwise have expired last week...
...Hankow, recently evacuated by the British, who abandoned to the Nationalists a $60,000,000 capital investment (TIME, Jan. 17) negotiations continued all week between British representative Owen O'Malley, and the Nationalist Foreign Minister Eugene Chen. An agreement was finally signed between them relating to the British holdings abandoned at Hankow, but the text of this agreement was kept secret...
There is no certain, legal foundation, according to a statement made last night to the Crimson by Stoughton Bell '96, attorney retained by Harvard, to the rumor prevalent after yesterday's proceedings that these 25 men will be discharged for lack of evidence, and upon an "agreement" between the counsels for defense and for prosecution. Mr. Bell stated that this agreement really referred to the fact that there was no disagreement between the counsels for defense and prosecution as to which defendants had been identified...