Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These three hurried to Washington to begin their job of peacemaking. The United Textile Workers complained that mill owners were overworking the "stretch-out," were refusing to bargain collectively. The employers complained that they could not afford to meet the union's demand of 40 hours pay for 30 hours work...
...Geneva everyone down to the scrubwomen was sure that the 18 "noes" necessary to blackball Russia when the League Assembly meets would not be found. In Moscow and Warsaw, however, other difficulties were stressed. Russia will demand a permanent League Council seat. Failing that she may refuse to join. Just now Poland has a semi-permanent Council seat. She threatened last week to demand a permanent seat for herself if Russia gets one. Since the Council can only act by unanimous vote, Poland was thus in a position to blackmail the Council, seemed strongly disposed to make the attempt...
...capitalism is the result of old age. Its "historical role" is over. This is owing to the exhaustion of "the long-time factors of expansion"-industrial expansion, creation of new industries, opening up of new land. Stagnation has set in. The forces of production overwhelm the forces of consumption. Demand and supply, profits and wages clash. The "contradiction" arises from the fact that the system lives on profits; to insure profits wages must be cut; to cut wages diminishes consumption. When production is restricted, whether by State intervention or through lack of markets, capitalism goes into decline...
...early December NRA proudly announced "an outstanding example of effective self-government and planned production in industry." To prevent "seasonal overproduction" the cotton textile industry would reduce its December output by 25%. There were good excuses for this failure of purchasing demand besides the increased price of cotton goods. In May and June before the code went into effect, buyers anticipating price increases had stocked up with large quantities of cotton goods which had to be sold to the public before steady demand could be resumed. And since the textile code was the first of its kind, it was necessary...
Sept. 1. When General Johnson promised Tom McMahon that he would have the possibility of higher wages investigated, he kept his word. He appointed a committee of NRA economists to find out whether the industry could stand higher wages without further boosting prices, further reducing the demand for its goods. The investigators answered: "Under existing conditions there is no factual or statistical basis for any general increase in cotton textile code wage rates...