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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said Youngstown: "The signed agreement demanded of us could not be enforced by us because it would be a one-sided instrument whereunder the employer alone would possess legal responsibility. ... The wage rates requested have been and are in effect. The company's vacation plan is more liberal to the employes than the one proposed by the C. I. 0. The hours of work requested have been and are in effect. The company has been, now is and will continue to be willing to meet and negotiate with representatives chosen by its employes for all purposes of collective bargaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes of the Week | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...economic activity throughout the land." Mr. Hull also made some remarks of his own. Aiming squarely at II Duce's week-old pronouncement of self-sufficiency for Italy, timed shrewdly for London's current Imperial Conference whose outcome may decide a U. S.-Great Britain reciprocal trade agreement. Secretary Hull damned self-sufficiency "unless a nation is content to 'sink into abject degradation, economic and spiritual impoverishment"; called for "a demobilization of ... stifling . . . mutual mistrust, of political hostility, of exhausting and suicidal race for military power, of continuing economic warfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Time Has Arrived . . . | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Finally, overshadowing all the rest, the President called for a finish fight on his Court Plan. Dictating a statement after his White House Conference, Senator Robinson declared: "I see no prospect at this stage of any adjustment or agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fighting Clothes | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...charges were the same as those brought in a 1912 suit against the company, tried in the Pittsburgh court; 3) the Pittsburgh court had settled the issue in 1912 by a consent decree* perpetually enjoining the company and its officers "from entering into or participating in any combination or agreement the purpose or effect of which is to restrict or control the output or the prices of aluminum." Effect of Judge Gibson's order was to require Government attorneys to come into his court and attempt to convince him that they were not trying to convict the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Round for Mellon | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

Pravda explained: "It is only necessary to understand that any commission of error or act, even a heavy crime, if admitted and not hidden, if brought to the knowledge of organs of Soviet power, constitutes much smaller guilt than a secret agreement with the enemy for fulfillment of espionage commissions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: In Case of Spies | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

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