Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After having held six sessions at Atlantic City, anthracite miners and operators found that they had reached an agreement on two and perhaps three of the eleven demands of the miners. The conference to draw up a new anthracite labor contract, in place of the present contract expiring on August 31, has as yet had no setbacks...
...Warriner declared: " Actually the miners presented 35 demands for changes in wages and working conditions instead of 11 as would at first glance appear. . . . Past experience has demonstrated that an anthracite wage contract cannot be negotiated in a hurry." John L. Lewis, leader of the miners, replied: " We feel it unwarranted to anticipate that this conference cannot function and secure an agreement before Aug. 31." After the operators had twice broached the subject of a truce, the matter was dropped...
...these letters is by no means universal among Negroes. Some members of his own race freely condemned the pugilist Johnson for marrying a " white." It was also one of the planks in the platform of the once popular Marcus Garvey, now convicted of fraud, that Negroes should not contract mixed marriages...
About 40 anthracite miners' and 25 mine operators' representatives met to consider the demands which the United Mine Workers (Districts 1, 7 and 9) are making for a new contract to supplant the present one expiring on August 31 (TIME, July 9). The conference opened at Atlantic City. John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, led the miners. The Presidents of each of the Districts were present also, and with William J. Brennan, the head of District 1, was Rinaldo Cappellini, the young and fiery President-elect...
...final game at the Polo Grounds-Yale 5, Princeton 1-gave "Mo" Berg, Tiger shortstop, difficult opportunities to which he rose so satisfactorily that Brooklyn National League scouts in the stands promptly offered him a Major League contract. Berg played his first game with Brooklyn last week, making one hit (a scratch, through the pitcher's box) and fielding perfectly...