Word: coms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...either side provided a showdown could be pre vented. Fortnight ago here was a preliminary skirmish when the A. F. of L. Automobile Workers' Union demanded a 20% wage increase and recognition. Last week the opening gun of the battle was fired by the National Automobile Chamber of Com merce. After a two-day session in Detroit the Chamber issued a manifesto declaring that, in spite of the fact that hourly wages are as high as in 1929, that weekly earnings are 90% as high and living costs only 83% as high, it would advise its members...
...take back the strikers and hold an election. Budd refused and refused again when the National Labor Board issued a similar order. Then an election was held in the plant and a company union set up. The NRA Compliance Board finally ordered another vote on: i) a modified com-pany union plan, or 2) joining the A. F. of L. union. The election, set for last week, was postponed on NRA orders to allow General Johnson to decide whether some 800 ousted strikers should be permitted to present credentials and vote. In spite of the postponement order another election...
...otherwise he has played on every varsity football and hockey team for three years. He was captain and right tackle of last season's undefeated eleven. He is also chairman of Princeton's undergraduate council, chairman of its honor system committee, member of its discipline com mittee, a director of its Student-Faculty Association, undergraduate representative on its new-library committee and president of its Catholic Club...
Conservative Premier Bennett hastily got the Parliament to extend the eleven banks' charters for one year instead of ten in re turn for his promise to call a commission to study Canada's whole banking, currency and coinage system. Head of this com mission, which shuttled all over the Dominion holding public hearings last summer and autumn, was Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron of Aberfeldy (TIME. Aug. 28, Nov. 20). For ten years Lord Macmillan had been heading British com missions including the Royal Commission on Lunacy & Mental Disorder and the Home Office Committee on Street Of fences...
...excellent example of the shortness of official French tempers last week was the abrupt dismissal of Emile Fabre as Director of the State-supported Comedic Frangaise. M. Fabre has run the Comédie since 1915, and like Jean Chiappe is dearly beloved by his underlings. His offense last week was producing a really popular play in his musty old theatre. Almost as soon as the Stavisky scandal broke Emile Fabre announced a performance of Shakespeare's Coriolanus. The house was packed. Every reference to corruption in high office was greeted with roars of applause. It seemed a pity...