Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the original demands for less work and more pay, the final demand of the strikers changed to a request to be taken back into their former positions. Even this was not entirely achieved. The strikers lost their seniority, and not all were taken back as some of their places had been filled by new employees...
...advantage this year, died in Chicago three months ago (TIME, May 5) aged 66. He was born in Newton, of pioneer parentage. He was a graduate of the University of Iowa and began his career as a lawyer in White Oaks, a cow-town "where undertakers were more in demand than lawyers." Later he settled in Chicago, practicing law and writing, in his spare time, for out-of-doors periodicals. The Mississippi Bubble made his first real success in the literary field?other books include The Story of the Cowboy, (praised by Theodore Roosevelt), The Man Next Door, The Girl...
...miners. Rinaldo Cappelini, radical President-elect of the United Mine Workers, District 1, was not a member of this body. The chief discussion was over the " checkoff" system whereby the coal companies collect dues for the unions out of miners' pay. The operators did not openly deny the demand of the miners for the checkoff, but asked a great many questions indicating their opposition to the idea...
...reply to the last German offer (thus far scorned by France and Belgium because Germany does not acquiesce in their demand that passive resistance must cease before discussion on the Ruhr and reparations issues can take place) will be written by Britain, sent for the approval or remarks of the other Allies, then forwarded to Germany. " So far as united action is possible, we shall continue to observe it," said the British Premier...
...have the backing of the U. S. Government. The main purpose of the conference will be to seek a solution of the Ruhr and reparations problems on a plane that will be acceptable to France and not injurious to European trade. It will also take into consideration the French demand for territorial security and will suggest Anglo-French participation in German industry; the whole, of course, being based on a speedy evacuation of the Ruhr by France-Belgium forces...