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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Manhattan's Whist Club, lawmaking body for U. S. contract bridge players, posted a new scoring system to replace the one in use since 1932. Result of studies by the Whist Club, London's Portland Club, the Commission Française du Bridge of Paris and many a bridge expert, the new code is effective all over the world after March 31. Important changes...
...little slam remains as before (500 points non-vulnerable, 1,000 points vulnerable). Grand slam bonuses are reduced: from 2,250 to 1,500 when vulnerable; from 1,500 to 1,000 when non-vulnerable.* For tricks over the contract, the bonuses are unchanged...
...contract a side is "vulnerable" when it has won one of the two games necessary for "rubber...
When a stockholder urged the management to reply, President Roy E. Tomlinson snapped: "This is not the tribunal for discussing the matter." So far Uneeda has refused to arbitrate the dispute on the ground that the strike was a bald breach of contract. Nevertheless, the union has shunted the case to the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, where it is now pending...
...involved squabble over the question of "equal pay for equal work" (as differentiated from wage scales based on merit or length of service), the disagreement originated in Uneeda's Philadelphia plant last January with the workers also charging breach of contract. President Calvin's 3,000 Manhattan workers struck sympathetically, followed by truck drivers. Within a few days the Newark, N. J. Cake Bakery, the Atlanta Bakery and the York, Pa. Pretzel Factory suffered walkouts. Director Ogden Mills's house at No. 2 East 69th Street was picketed.* Currently both sides are accusing each other of thuggery...