Word: joints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coal Commission, entering the situation for the first time, invited the Joint Scale Committee of the anthracite miners and operators to meet with it at the Pennsylvania Hotel, Manhattan. The invitations were accepted. After both sides had talked with the Commission the miners made two offers: 1) That the operators accept all their demands; 2) that the miners would give up their demands for the check-off (whereby the operators would collect dues, assessments and fines for the union out of miners' wages) provided the operators would stop their practice of checking off from miners' wages debts contracted...
...collecting their bills. The operators saw nothing constructive in these suggestions, and the conference broke up. It took two days to reach this misunderstanding. Thereupon the Coal Commission called in John L. Lewis for the miners and Samuel D. Warriner for the operators, " urging" them to go into a joint conference with their associates and report whether they could not come to an agreement, permanent or tentative, such as would avert a strike. A reply was requested before evening. The miners and operators met again in joint conference. The operators renewed their request that there be an agreement against...
Reginald McKenna, liberal member of Parliament and Chairman of the London Joint City and Midland Bank, informed Premier Baldwin that he would not be able to assume the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, at present held with the Premiership by Mr. Baldwin...
...Rockefeller's bond investments totaled over $44,000,000, and included $6,200,000 of Liberties, $5,000,000 Federal Land Banks, $1,544,000 Joint Stock Land Banks, $8,430,000 New York City bonds and $20,952,000 New York State bonds ?or over $42,000,000 in tax exempt issues...
After the Lottery bill was law, the Congress by a joint resolution condemned the U. S. for interfering with the internal affairs of Cuba. General Crowder left for the U. S.; the old graft system is still entrenched; Cuba has her Lottery and $50,000,000 from American bankers...