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Green's Speech. Chairman Green opened with a speech and the reading of a long report from the Executive Council, of which he is head. He told that the Federation (composed of 31,261 unions) as of Aug. 31 had 2,878,297 members not counting some 500,000 unemployed or out on strike and not paying dues. He assailed "employes' representation," "employes' ownership" and "employes' insurance' as schemes of employers more insidious than outright attack in undermining the unions. He warned Labor of Communistic organizations masquerading as part of the bona fide trade union movement?such organizations...
...said (TIME, Aug. 24, Page 5) in sketching the career of Mr. H. P. Davison, that he "was a young man who be gan earning his living at 16 as a school teacher. He never got a college education. He got a job as office boy in a small bank, etc." It seems to be clearly implied that his student days were over before or when...
With the strike, due to failure (TIME, Aug. 31) to reach a new wage contract, comtinuing for its second month in the nation's anthracite coal fields in Pennsylvania, and with no prospect of a settlement there in sight, John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, traveled into West Virginia to start a strike there...
Last week there was considerable agitation in England over the terms of Premier Baldwin's coal subsidy (TIME, Aug. 31). The operators, supported by Mr. Baldwin, declared that the articles of the "coal truce" now in force permit them to lower the wages of certain miners, in accordance with the variable base rates of the 1924 wage agreement, which is now continued under the subsidy. The miners, headed by "Emperor" A. J. Cook, incendiary laborite, obtained what they considered expert legal opinion, to the effect that no wage reductions of any sort are admissible under existing agreements...
Sugar consumption, however, is steadily increasing in the U. S. In the eight months ending Aug. 31 about 3,755,000 tons of refined sugar were consumed in the U. S., against 3,540,000 tons for the same eight months of 1924. Actual consumption in 1924 was 4,854,479 tons, while estimated consumption for 1925 is 5,450,000. The year 1922 still holds the record of sugar consumption at 5,092,758 tons...