Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parliamentary battle was waged around six bills which Premier Chautemps calls his "Modern Labor Charter," and which represent a great constructive effort to create, by democratic means and with democratic checks, a French State authority strong enough to arbitrate and enforce peaceful settlement of disputes between Capital & Labor. The 7,000 contracts expiring March 1 were not permitted to expire last week while the parliamentary battle raged, for the Chamber & Senate calendar was kept day after day at February 28, and thus officially time stood still...
...Charter. The formulas by which studiously Middle-Class Camille Chautemps hoped to achieve social peace...
Last week it passed two more milestones : N. M. U. received a charter from C. I. 0., and it had written to 30 steamship companies, including the big International Mercantile Marine (U. S. Lines, Panama Pacific Line, etc.): "The National Maritime Union has been chosen overwhelmingly as the Collective Bargaining agency for the unlicensed personnel on your ships. It is now your duty to comply with the law ..." (i. e., bargain under the National Labor Relations...
...that he was "a rabid pro-German." Despite his denial of disloyal acts, the regents that night fired him for "his attitude." Schaper's friends charged the real reason for his dismissal was not his attitude toward the War but his advocacy, as a member of the Minneapolis Charter Commission, of public ownership of the street railways. Said Pierce Butler: "We must see that sincere, loyal Americans are made instructors of our youth, and not 'blatherskites' such as this...
...beneficence. There was good cause for it to resent the intrusion of union leaders into what was seemingly none of their huskiness. But in its long history Harvard has had to distinguish between fads of the moment and trends that have come to stay. In 1776 a royal charter did not prevent the University from recognizing the American Revolution; today tradition has not kept it from hailing this new revolution...