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Wagner Labor Relations Act, he last week stole a march on the New Deal by proposing three amendments: 1) to authorize employers as well as unions to demand labor elections; 2) to require that collective bargaining agreements be set down in writing and, in case a union fails to live up to a contract, to deprive it of its right of employe representation; 3) to establish a fair practice code for Labor just as there is now such a code for employers. Chief importance of these proposals was as a goad to the New Deal majority, but important for itself...
...first began to spoil starched dinner parties by discoursing on the inadequacies of Herbert Hoover, then fell under the spell of an errant Philadelphia socialite, William Christian ("Bill") Bullitt. Thereafter his march down the sawdust trail broke into a run. With his Main Line friends he was in disgrace, but soon he was making other friends, Oilman Joseph F. Guffey, boss of Pennsylvania's Demo-cratic machine; David Leo Lawrence, a practical politician born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia...
...strikers to suppress violence. Since the mill continued to operate and the State police prevented the strikers from closing the mill by force, he was in the peculiar position for a Labor Governor, of "breaking the strike." Then the United Mine Workers called 40,000 miners to march on Johnstown. Declaring martial law, he sent in troops and shut the mill (TIME, June 28). So there was no violence of consequence in Johnstown. Where three others had fumbled, Governor Earle had made a putout. Last week he justified the Cambria shut-down by saying: "In this crisis the choice...
...Exchequer Sir John Simon quietly asked of Parliament, and very shortly was granted, leave to add a billion dollars (?200,000,000) to the Exchange Equalization Fund of $750,000,000 with which John Bull has been operating in the world's money markets. He revealed that last March 30 the Fund possessed 26.674,000 oz. of fine gold, or $933,590,000 worth, compared to $2,584470,000 owned by the Bank of England and $11,000,000,000 worth by the U. S., whose currency stabilizing fund is $2,000,000.000. The stabilizing fund of the French...
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