Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...observed, last week, at Atlantic City. There the miners came, headed by John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, to present their demands, drawn up a week before at Scranton, Pa. (TIME, July 13), for a new wage contract to replace that which expires on Aug. 31. The miners ask 1) a two-year contract; 2) increases of 10% for contract miners and $1 a day for day workers; 3) the check-off (collection of Union dues out of miners' pay by the coal companies...
...Premier Stanley Baldwin, fearing the miner's threat of a general strike on Aug. 1, appointed W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, to mediate between employers and employed. Mr. Bridgeman was, however, unsuccessful, and the Government named a court of inquiry to make an investigation into the causes of the mining industry dispute...
...Aug. 30, the fleet will assemble at Pago Pago once more. On Sept. 10, most of it will be back at Honolulu, and a few weeks later the ships that plowed the waters on the other side of the earth will be back at their stations...
...particular these conditions relate to the coal industry and to the railways. The miners threatened the country with a general strike beginning Aug. 1, but probably this was no more than a threat for the purposes of maneuver. The railwaymen discussed a proposal for an "all round" reduction in wages and salaries of 5%, designed to affect laborers and officials...
Nicaragua. Local newspapers of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, announced that the U. S. marines would leave on Aug. 4. Washington confirmed the statement by stating that they would leave "early in August." The marines have been in Nicaragua for 13 years and were to have left early this year, but President Carlos Solorzano requested that they remain to maintain order pending the creation of a native constabulary. The constabulary is now functioning...