Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your article entitled 'Peace over Toledo" you outline the settlement made in the Auto-Lite strike [TIME, June 11]. So that your information may be accurate we are pleased to enclose copy of the agreement...
...rehire all strikers within a week. In case of layoffs, the company promised to discharge first those men who were hired since Feb. 23, which includes strikebreakers. 2) TIME said: "Workers will be represented by officials of the striking union, thereby practically killing off the company union." Fact: The agreement called for workers to be represented by whichever union they belong to, whether A. F. of L. or the Auto-Lite Council Body (socalled company union). 3) TIME said of the Toledo Edison Co. settlement: "The union was recognized." Fact: The company formally recognized the union more than ten years...
...municipality . . . and well nigh every State in the union." 3) Congress alone has power to say what shall be used as money. Concluded Judge Faris: "[The Gold Clause] is a promise to pay in gold, not as money, but as a mere commodity. . . . In short, it is a mere agreement of barter or swapping of commodities. If in 1903 the contract had been that 30 years later the maker would pay to the holder of each bond 100 piculs of Chinese opium, how would the case stand? Since 1903 the Congress, having the power to do so, has forbidden...
...same breath doughty "Mitch" promised drastic economy and costly relief. While raising widows' pensions and payments to the unemployed, he would "cut expenses in half." Coming out against the St. Lawrence seaway development he threatened to break Ontario's agreement with the Dominion to purchase St. Lawrence electric power developed on the Canadian site. "I promise a new deal," he cried, "and clean government!" On polling day Canadians cocked one eye upon Ontario, cocked the other upon Saskatchewan. Too grimly wrathful to throw eggs and tomatoes at their Conservative Premier J. T. M. Anderson, the smoldering sons...
...cargoes. Least affected city was Los Angeles, which consequently enjoyed an unprecedented ship ping boom. Last week San Francisco's Mayor Angelo Rossi stepped in as peacemaker. In his office Joe Ryan sat down with ship owners and representatives of the Mari time Workers' Union, signed an agreement under which the flow of commerce, stagnant for 39 days, was to be resumed. Main features of the agreement were : recognition of I. L. A. for collective bar gaining; joint control of employment by the union and employers; arbitration of the hour-wage dispute. But the agreement did not grant...