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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next three years and a 40-hour maximum over the next two. However, it lacked the regional differential which had been its predecessor's concession to Southern industry's cherished conviction that climatic and racial conditions below the Mason & Dixon line entitle its workers to a lower wage scale. Consequently no one was much surprised when a combined majority of Southerners and Republicans on the Rules Committee last fortnight refused to give the bill a rule for debate in the House; or when Aunt Mary again announced that she would try to have the committee discharged from consideration...
...finance would get out of Government and Government would get out of business, everything would go again. . . . Financiers may claim that they want lower wages and lower prices, but actually they are trying to create a system whereby they can manipulate wages down and profits...
...lower the debt the better the business, and that goes for government...
Tall, bland Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon drew gasps from startled M. P.s by disclosing that as much as 150,000 tons of wheat have been bought by the Government in a single day, plus correspondingly gigantic purchases of sugar and whale oil. (The British lower classes can subsist indefinitely on bread and margarine-in which whale oil is a key ingredient.) What Sir John was really doing, as he "opened" the Budget last week, was unlocking the State secret that His Majesty's Government have craftily completed the first step necessary to prepare the Empire against...
...Valera lost no time in putting his achievements before the Dail Eireann (lower house). Four days after the pact was signed, the Opposition Fine Gael of William Cosgrave, who has now lost his chief difference with de Valera's party, joined with the Prime Minister's Fianna Fail supporters to vote approval. One diehard, James Larkin, Dublin Laborite, spoiled a unanimous vote. "The payment of $50,000,000 to Britain is a compromise," groused Laborite Larkin. In London, Prime Minister Chamberlain, busy last week with another neighbor, France (see p. 15), is expected this week...