Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Oshawa strike had lasted through 16 days of negotiation it ended in the workers winning a 44-hr, week with very slightly higher pay-and in a most curious agreement. Since neither their employers nor "Mitch" would treat with any workers affiliated however remotely with C. I. O., and since all the strike leaders by this time were so affiliated, they signed in such fashion as to put after their names labor union titles like "Secretary" or "President" but nowhere mentioned what body or affiliate of C.I. O. they represented. On the face of things, Premier Hepburn...
...insisting that a sound measure had been "seriously impaired in its value by the inclusion of a provision designed to legalize a virtual monopoly in the hands of a small group of seaboard refiners." He added: "I am approving the bill with what amounts to a gentleman's agreement that the unholy alliance between the cane and beet growers on the one hand, and the seaboard refining monopoly on the other, has been terminated by the growers. That means that, hereafter, the refiners' lobby should expect no help from the domestic growers. That is at least a definite...
...Friends' meetings, and even if they were, dissident Friends would not consider themselves bound by the results. Most that a meeting does is to decide that "the sense of the meeting" subscribes to this or that generality. Chief matter on which the second World Conference was in agreement was that Quakers must be forthright, militant pacifists...
...president of Gum, Inc. last July. That month Gum, Inc. made $7,472, after six months' earnings of $49,000 on sales estimated at about $800,000. Bubbleman Bowman's only current worry is a suit by his estranged second wife, Ruth, who claims a verbal agreement to a half-interest in his holdings. Last week, after the first arguments were heard, Philadelphians believed that Bubbleman Bowman was secure...
...except for a pushover job, such as the taking of Santander, the correspondents are kept a good eagle's flight away. In the recent heavy fighting around Madrid and in the big push now under way in the Aragon front, both the Rightists and the Leftists were in agreement that correspondents were not wanted at the front. But 400 men. even under restraint, can gather considerable information and when pooled it generally provides an adequate account. Next problem...