Word: bargainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president of that highly successful capitalistic enterprise, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), Labor has been unalterably opposed to Samuel Clay Williams as NIRB Chairman since the day he succeeded NRAdministrator Hugh Johnson (TIME, Feb. 25). Because he believed that Mr. Williams had given employers the better of the bargain when he helped frame the preliminary cigaret code before he came to NRA, President Ira Milard Ornburn of the A. F. of L. cigar makers' union introduced a resolution at last autumn's Federation convention urging President Roosevelt to reconsider Mr. Williams' promotion. A "Dear Bill" letter...
...which subsequent Chinese Governments blandly snap. In Manhattan what could be called the reaction of informed U. S. tycoons accustomed to doing business with China was neatly capsuled by the Herald Tribune thus: "If she [China] is left to her own devices she can be trusted to sign no bargain which she cannot subsequently denounce or evade...
Pleased with the new Japanese-Chinese bargain now under discussion, General Doihara beamed in Hongkong, "Our relations with China are much better." In Nanking, impatient for his big loan, Chinese Finance Minister Kung deplored the impossibility of screwing silver out of the Chinese people as President Roosevelt screwed gold out of the U. S. people, threatened to go through the motions of taking China off the silver standard and establishing a managed currency. Dryly commented the world's famed "Money Doctor," Princeton Professor Edwin W. Kemmerer, rehabilitator of a dozen currencies and an expert on China...
...legislation setting up the present Labor Relations Board. His bill last week proposed to make the Labor Relations Board supreme arbiter over all labor boards, give it power to enforce the policy of giving unions which can poll a majority of the workers in a plant the right to bargain for all the plant's workers. The American Federation of Labor favors such a policy, but not President Roosevelt who has made it clear that 1) he favors proportionate representation in collective bargaining; 2) he intends to support the Automobile Labor Board which is setting up such a system...
...Commission also recommended that the Interstate Commerce Commission be empowered temporarily to revise airmail rates under Postmaster General Farley's "bargain" system, pending permanent legislation. Zealous lest the New Deal's attitude toward the "profit motive" be overlooked, the President said: "I concur in this recommendation . . . provided always that the grant of this duty to the Interstate Commerce Commission be subject to provisions against unreasonable profits by any private carrier. . . . It is only fair to suggest that during this period any profits at all by such companies should be a secondary consideration. Government aid in this case...