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Exports from the Dutch East Indies, upon last reports, topped one billion and a half gulden ($600,000,000), with imports at over half a billion. To the credit of the Netherlands, all nations participate in this trade without tariff preferences of any kind...
...sensation of the week was the rejection by the British Trade Union Council of a "strike fund" check for 250,000 gold rubles ($125,000) despatched to it by the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions. At Amsterdam, however, the Netherlands Trade Union Congress voted 60,000 gulden ($24,250) for the same purpose, with every prospect of its being most gratefully accepted, and in France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Japan, Mexico, labor organizations manifested their sympathy for the British strikers by commendatory votes, scattered strikes, monetary contributions, or by taking steps to hamper essential exports to Britain. Unquestionably there...
...annum, by increasing the taxes on alcohol, business transactions and practically everything else; 2) The franc slipped down last week to 27 to the $1, a new low record for the year. The relative stability of numerous foreign currencies, prompted the harassed Jean to transfer his currency into pounds, gulden, Scandinavian kroner, U. S. dollars...
...Treaty of Versailles naturally had to have some standard coin, and have thus 'been the source of several new ones. The Republic of Lavia adopted the "lat," equal to a gold French franc, or 19.3? in U. S. money. The Free State of Danzig chose the "gulden" of about equal value. Lithuania, however, in establishing its new standard coin, the "lit," fixed its value as equal to 10? in U. S. money. Poland beginning Jan. 1, 1924, introduced its new gold standard coin, the "zloty," equivalent to the gold French franc...
...gulden will be worth $.04764. One and five gulden coins will also be minted. A new bank will be founded under State control with a branch in London...