Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stay of the new law so far as the U. S. is concerned and trade will be continued on the new minimum tariff basis, which means an average increase of 40% over the old average of 60%, until either a treaty of commerce is signed or the negotiations break down...
...Edinburgh, capital of Scotland, met, last week, the British Trades Union Congress. Its most important act was to break off relations with the All-Russian Council of Trades Unions, a course recommended by its General Council. By this action Bolshevist activities in the British Isles were dealt a deadly blow...
Walter Citrine, Secretary of the Congress, explained the reason for the break with acid simplicity. Said he: "Two years of patient striving to bring about an under-standing between the Russian and British movements. . . have now convinced the General Council, that it is impossible to go on under present conditions. The Rus-sian idea is that the labor movement is played on the Moscow stage and that all other labor organizations are merely spectators in the auditorium...
Significance. The decision to break off relations indicates that the British Labor movement is once again under the undisputed leadership of moderates such as one-time Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his trusty aides, John Clynes, "Jimmy" Thomas and others. The reason for this is probably the General Strike, undertaken against the ad- vice of the moderates, which not only dealt them a hard blow in the sense that it gave industry an unparalleled set-back and robbed them of full-time employment, but virtually bankrupted the Trades Union organizations throughout the country...
...headed John L. Baird* invited members of the Royal Institution to drop in at his London laboratory for a demonstration of television. The two score gentlemen who went were impressed deeply by the ingenuity of Mr. Baird's "optical lever," a series of whirling lenses mounted on discs, which break up an optical image into minute constituent parts. They were even more impressed by the Baird photo-electric cell, of the colloidal selenium type, which could capture and transmit the minute image parts at unprecedented speed. Last week, between sessions of the British Association, members sought out Inventor Baird...