Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then decided it was treason. President Benes ordered not only the arrest of Henlein, now a fugitive, should he ever return, but also immediate confiscation of Sudeten Nazi Party funds and property including firearms. Nazi Deputies were not deprived of their parliamentary standing and immunity, but the President declared Parliament adjourned, and his decree enjoined all Nazis against "party activity." The north, east and south districts were still calm, but in the west bloody scuffles continued. The Government, in efforts to convince Sudeten Nazis that their game was up, let it be known that the army, without any published mobilization...
Officials of the T.U.C. and Labor Party joined in a resolution warning Germany to keep out of Czechoslovakia, demanding that Neville Chamberlain call Parliament in extraordinary session to stiffen British policy against the Nazis. But British Labor was not willing to deny support to stodgy Prime Minister Chamberlain. T.U.C. refused to condemn the Prime Minister by refusing him cooperation in Rearmament, decided that Labor will cheerfully continue to earn high wages building British armaments. Cold also was T.U.C. to dire warnings by Delegate J. C. Little of the Amalgamated Engineering Union that in piling up arms under Chamberlain, Labor...
Last week at an international Group houseparty in Interlaken, Switzerland gathered 2,000 Groupers from 40 nations. Though Oxford Group publicity (increasingly well-organized) featured such leaders as Foreign Minister J. A. N. Patijn of The Netherlands and Parliament President Carl J. Hambro of Norway-scheduled to speak at Interlaken-it w'as careful not to ignore the lowly-born. One delegate to the assembly was Labor Leader Todd Sloan, 62, onetime London dock hand, to Oxford Groupers a "radical agitator" now reformed. In clearest terms he stated Buchmanism's new, grown-up policy: "In the moral rearmament...
...Collective agreements rest upon moral force rather than legal compulsion." Neither side wants law to back it up. Exception: wages (but only wages) in the weaving section of the cotton textile industry; in 1934, both sides sought an Act of Parliament which froze rates they had already collectively agreed upon. Cause: chiseling by unorganized employers and weavers...
...Parliament has legalized all such picketing as does not 1) block traffic, 2) intimidate non-strikers, 3) lead to a breach of the peace. Result: "violence on the part of the workers, and provocative tactics on the part of the employers, have not for a long time played any significant part in industrial disturbances." C, British trade unions cannot incorporate but they may register, which gains them continuity of being and certain tax exemptions; or they can get a certificate, which gains no tax exemptions but proves title to a union's legal immunities for striking. Neither registration...