Word: insistently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Virginia, even with perfect transportation, cannot produce more than sixty percent of the fuel needed. The other fields must be worked as well. And the union miners, knowing this, insist that in the new wage contract due on the first of April, they at least retain the 1920 scale; and they are asking even a further increase. The president of the United Mine Workers of America claims that the operators are trying to crush the miners, and that they demand higher prices for coal using the strike as an excuse. He has consequently called a strike for the first...
...premium; the unorganized miners are making money while fully half the union men are idle. In many places the unions are said to be losing men because of their demands. Furthermore, the coal operators accuse the union of trying to bolster up wages by a non-competitive market, and insist that the retrenching of other industries requires lower priced coal--an impossibility with higher priced labor. So far the operators surely have right on their side. But the contracts call for a conference, and these same operators, by refusing to confer, have thereby taken upon themselves a certain responsibility...
...half a century shows that shipping is no longer an industry in which we have a "comparative advantage". Why, then, invest our money in the less profitable way? Especially today, when the exigencies of the War have put the world so very much in our debt, to insist on building up our merchant service is to deprive foreign nations of just one more method of meeting their obligations and to postpone by just so much the return of this country to its normal trade conditions. It would be well, therefore, if those in authority thought it over very carefully before...
This condition results from two main causes: our ship owners insist on a large profit, and our operating costs are greater. For the first there seems to be no remedy until more of our owners are willing to take the four, or five, or six percent profit with which Europeans are content, instead of usually insisting upon the ten or fifteen percent which the same capital would bring in certain other businesses. As regards the second evil--high operating expenses--the usual proposal is to offset them by some form of ship subsidy. But experience testifies that a subsidy...
...loss. The basis for the Four Power treaty lies in the conference idea: the meeting in Faneuil Hall tonight is for the purpose of continuing what was accomplished at Washington--the world has seen what can be done in this way. If the new French cabinet will insist on doing things slowly and correctly through the usual diplomatic channels, France will find itself in the position of a man who decides to drive leisurely down speeding Broadway in a smart brougham only to wonder at being the last of a long line before the box-office...