Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After Jan. 1, 1927, either side may not oftener than once a year propose changes in the contract, in which case negotiations shall begin within 15 days and be concluded after 30 days of negotiations...
...thin, slightly wizened little man of 62 with graying hair. He was no man for arduous marches in extremes of weather. But he had not undertaken his job because of the stoutness of his legs and constitution. He had a fleet of aeroplanes, a corps of pilots. He had contracted to whisk letters and packages from Cleveland and Chicago to his home city, Detroit, and vice versa. His first plane, though he was not in it, was met at Cleveland by a fleet of Army pursuit planes. Unloading, loading, it soon sped back with Detroit's first air mail. There...
...third time since the calling of the miners' strike on Sept. 1, negotiations for a new wage contract in the anthracite industry failed. There was only one meeting last week and then an adjournment. The operators made two final proposals...
...Lynett of the Scranton Times brought the conference together by a plan for a five year conference together by a plan for a five year contract at present wages, subject to successful negotiations at the end of two years. Because it protects against untoward wage reductions, the miners quickly accepted this scheme as a basis for conference. But the operators now object that it would freeze the wage scale, and are busy explaining that their return to conference does not mean acquiescence in Mr. Lynett's project...
...there would be no reduction in wages and at least some chance of an increase in wages; that no system of arbitration would be set up which either now or later might reduce wages. Their check-off demand was retained, probably as a trading point. The length of the contract might so far as they were concerned be anything up to five years. But they were determined not to have arbitration, and suggested as an alternative having the operators open their books and having a board determine, on the basis of the operators' profits, how much wages should be raised...