Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What seemed last week's worst threat to Recovery was the prospect of an immediate strike of all bituminous coal miners. The hour & wage agreement which President Roosevelt helped negotiate in 1933, was due to expire at midnight, March 31. In Washington, operators' and miners' committees had been deadlocked over a new contract since mid-February. Operators stood firm for a one-year extension of the current contract. Miners, in the person of United Mine Workers' shrewd, hefty President John L. Lewis, wanted hours cut from 35 to 30 per week, wages upped from...
Fortnight ago Secretary of Labor Perkins sent a Federal mediator to tackle the strike. Last week, aften ten days of shuttling between both sides, he pocketed an agreement signed by Ledger and Guild. Prime points: 1) Dismissal of all 24 strikebreakers. 2) Rehiring of all strikers. 3) No dismissals for 30 days. 4) An arbitration board to decide the fate of the eight ousted newshawks whose case started the strike. 5) Arbitration board also to settle matters of wages, hours, working conditions, grievances. 6) The Guild to help restitution of the Ledger's lost good will...
Snapped a spokesman: "Details of that agreement have never been revealed and remain unavailable." Few days later, after the Hitler bombshell at Berlin (see below), North Dakota's irate Gerald Nye, chairman of the U. S. Senate's munitions quiz, thundered: "The munitions makers have at last talked Germany into scrapping the Treaty of Versailles so they can sell their wares...
...Eric Phipps at the Wilhelmstrasse, opened with a stiff "protest against" Realmleader Hitler's "unilateral action" in "putting forward, as a decision already arrived at, strengths for military effectives greatly exceeding any before suggested-strengths, moreover, which, if maintained unaltered, must make more difficult if not impossible the agreement of other powers vitally concerned...
...Moscow the Chinese Embassy blandly pointed out that Soviet Russia, by her agreement of 1924 with China, specifically engaged not to sell or surrender Russia's rights in the C. E. R. to any third power without China's consent. Nettled, the Soviet Embassy spokesman in Nanking snapped: "China has for years been unable to exercise her rights or duties regarding the C. E. R. She cannot properly reproach us. We consider this Chinese protest a mere formality...