Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terms: all employes would register for work. Those not rehired would be told why and if dissatisfied with the reasons, could appeal to a new personnel director, E. T. Wilson, in whom the work ers had high confidence. Strikers, as such, would not be discriminated against. The management would meet an employes' committee to adjust grievances. But Dr. Mothwurf, as is usual in such cases, was emphatic on one point. Said he : "I will deal only with former employes as such and not with the Union as a Union...
Gerson is no great loss to the race. But in the last act, prisoned in the lacquered mansion of the dread Chang Kai Chang, the Hon. Nancy and "Chinese" O'Neill nearly meet their doom. At the last moment the adventurous Celt obtains a Colt, takes a pot shot at the munition-laden ships of Chang Kai Chang?"Master of the China Sea." He does not miss. He embraces the Hon. Nancy during a thunderous holocaust which signals the utter destruction of all their enemies...
...Governments built on foundations of tyranny and oppression have flourished, decayed and perished. The British Empire has shown that the lessons of the fate of empires have not been lost. We have loosened the formal bonds of unity with the great dominions. . . . When we meet together in equal freedom we are united by common allegiance to the Crown. In that model unity lies our strength...
Winnipeg last week conducted an aviation meet and aircraft exhibition. It was the biggest, most important air event of Canada's year, surpassing in extent and influence Montreal's exhibition, earlier in May. More than 70 planes showed at Winnipeg. Many competed in races and stunts. They carried hundreds of passengers. Makes included: de Havilland Moth, Avro Avian, Huff Daland, Lockheed Vega, American Eagle, Fokker, Junkers, Cessna, Fairchild, Ford, Waco, Hamilton, Douglas, Laird, Ryan, Travel Air, Monocoupe, Curtiss Robin...
Instigator of the Winnipeg meet & show was the Winnipeg Flying Club. It is one of 16 local Canadian clubs, whose members have flown approximately 10,000 hours since 1927, when the Canadian Department of National Defence first started to foster them. The Government gives planes, engines and cash to clubs which provide their own flying fields, hire an instructor and air engineer, and have at least 30 members prepared to qualify as pilots (not less than ten must already be qualified). For every member who qualifies, the flying club gets $100 more. And if the club later buys planes...