Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hardly had the railway strike been settled (TIME, Jan. 28 et seq.) than the dockers' section of the Transport Workers' Union went on strike for a 43-cent daily wage increase. More than 110,000 men were idle; 1,000,000 more were expected to be thrown voluntarily out of work if the strike is allowed to get well under...
...first convention of the Democratic League, a unien of the old Liberal and Democratic Parties. It was resolved to champion at the elections "parliamentary government, statutory liberty and sovereignty of the vote without coercion of any party." The same resolution condemned the present electoral law (TIME, May 28, et seq.) as an "artifice which assured a majority to any party which could use the governmental agencies...
...Party is that which keeps him in power at Canton, province of Kwang-Tung. Politically it is not adverse to a central government at Peking, but is violently opposed to the present Government, charging that President Tsao-Kun fraudulently manipulated the last elections (TIME, Oct. 15, et...
...struggle between the Obregon-ists or Federal and Huertista or rebel Governments of Mexico (TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.) was continued throughout the week in the form of guerilla warfare...
...account of the Honduran civil war (TIME, Feb. 11, et seq.) the Government of the U. S. severed diplomatic relations with Honduras. U. S. Minister Morales remained at Tegucigalpa, however, making unofficial effort to bring the rival political leaders together...