Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although he maintains wages higher than, hours as short as those stipulated under the code, Henry Ford cannot stomach his workers' unionization. This antipathy is chiefly what has kept him from flying the Blue Eagle. A strike at his Edgewater, N. J. plant, whose workers demand the right of collective bargaining guaranteed by the Recovery Act, is now in the hands of the National Labor Board...
LaBranche & Co. is a firm of "specialists" who, acting for other brokers, keep a record ("book") of orders placed above or below the market. When the market price reaches the prices fixed in the orders, the specialist executes them. Because the specialist thus knows the supply & demand factors better than anyone else, the Stock Exchange has passed very strict rules forbidding the specialist to use this inside information for his own gain. Offenses are called "trading against the book...
...thrived well enough to interest the neighboring Maine Central Railroad and Central Vermont Railway which run into New Hampshire and Vermont. The difficulty of surface travel made air service logical, but would there be enough patronage? National Airways hit upon a simple scheme. Let local boosters prove the public demand by selling 1,000 tickets in advance. No tickets, no airline. Last week the 1,000th ticket was sold, airplanes flew between Boston, Concord, White River, Vt., Montpelier and Barre...
...Labour leaders will be forced either to challenge the capitalist system, or to be shown up for what they are: radishes, red on the outside and white within. England cannot stand the burden of more social legislation, but the party if it has a majority, cannot hesitate to demand it. As with Labour governments of the near past, all the pressure from the Treasury will be exerted on them to slash what relief provisions are now outstanding; but the party will not dare to follow their commands again. "Gradualism in reverse gear"--that is what Strachey so aptly called...
...bear, while the aim of the worker is to push them as high as he can. Even a small depression in the price level creates a sharp problem in that balance; and when, as is happening today, the producer finds he can make no such concessions as the workers demand, a crisis in the labour market results. Until the abolition of private ownership in production harmonizes the interests of the worker and the producer, our labour market must remain, and will continue to become ever more and more, a vast game of touch and go punctuated by strikes and lockouts...