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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest progress made last week towards the settlement of the controversy between anthracite miners and operators (TIME, July 20 et seq.) was the scratching of seven days off the calendar. The present wage contract in the anthracite industry expires on Aug. 31 and, unless the miners, with their demand for higher wages, and the operators, with their demand for lower wages, reach a compromise by that date, a strike will begin on Sept...
...education program of the A. F. of L. is the cinema. Last week a contract was signed for production in Chicago of a motion picture showing the evolution of Labor from slavery to the Federation. The eight hour day, closed vs. open shop, child labor questions, will all be filmed and sent forth, supplemented by lecturers...
Thereupon the miners gave Mr. Lewis power to call a strike, on Sept. 1, when the present wage contract expires. Mr. Lewis and Mr. Warriner resumed their exchange of notes...
...third week went by, leaving the anthracite miners and operators no nearer to deciding whether mining is to continue after Aug. 31, when the present wage contract expires. The miners have asked a 10% wage increase; the operators say that wage costs must be reduced. Incidents of the week: ¶ The operators published, in Philadelphia and Manhattan newspapers, advertisements telling the public that there was no necessity for a hard coal strike, that they were willing to offer to continue operations after Aug. 31 and to arbitrate any difference which had not been settled by that time. The miners charged...
...Dawson, recently retired telephone contract agent for the Post Office Department, wrote to a London evening newspaper recalling that once he installed two "beautiful telephones in ivory and gold" for the exclusive use of the late King Edward. The monarch requested that they be installed in such a way that the operators could not overhear his conversation. The Post Office authorities demurred. According to their regulations they had a positive right and duty to censor any messages coming over their wires. But King Edward insisted and the Post Office desisted, installed the telephones as requested...