Word: kelloggs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprising aspect of the six-hour day is that from it concrete advantages accrue to both employer and employee. W. K. Kellogg has used the plan in his plant at Battle Creek since December, 1930, and he has made some startling discoveries concerning its use in mechanical factories. Machinery designed to turn out 165 pieces per minute is working at a 208 per minute rate. Wages are not reduced, but overhead is appreciably cut. Yet dividends pour forth as before. The secret is that the shorter shift is easier to handle, needs no lunch-hours and no replacements during lunch...
...cannot be done in the case of Japan without the concurrence of the United States; nor will any steps be taken toward it without assurance that, if taken, this country will concur. The United States is not a member of the League, but it is a party to the Kellogg-Briand pact of Paris, and there can be no doubt that Japan, contrary to that pact, has sought to settle a dispute by other than pacific means...
...been broadcast over European lines rather than over American. The Government of the United States has put plainly on record its disapproval of what is in reality an aggressive war on China by Japan. It has founded its objection to this aggressive proceeding on the moral force of the Kellogg-Briand Pact and on the Nine-Power Treaty of 1922. Dr. Lowell freely admits that any action which the United States may take or may join in with other Powers is based not on the Covenant of the League of Nations but on these two agreements, to which we have...
...Kellogg Pact is a formal renunciation of the means of war on the part of the signatory Powers. It assigns no penalty for the breaking of the pledge which it implies. It binds no one to the act of enforcement. The Nine-Power, like any other actual treaty, goes further in its implications than the purely declaratory utterance of the Kellogg Pact. Dr. Lowell says that "we are entitled to take the steps necessary to cause the observance of the treaty." But to be "entitled" to take such a step is one thing, and to take upon our shoulders...
...Shanghai area wherein there were places of mutual contact. 4) The establishment of neutral zones in the International Settlement which would keep the forces separated and thus protect the Settlement. 5) Commencement of negotiations, following acceptance of the first four points, to settle all differences in accordance with the Kellogg Pact; this to be accomplished with the assistance of neutral and impartial observers...