Word: postmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...francs a month), a 24-hour general strike was called. Everything in industry and transportation stopped dead. Firemen, and gas and electric workers were the chief officials. The only opportunity to ride by taxi, streetcar or bus, was in a funeral cortege, for funeral coaches were exempted. Postmen, musicians and many waiters took part in the suspension...
...declared his opposition to an increase in postal pay without a corresponding increase in revenue, it was incumbent upon Congress to provide an approximately equal increase of revenue if the bill was to become law. Congressmen had a choice of passing a bill which would fulfill their promises to postmen-voters, which every one knew the President would veto, or of passing a bill which would satisfy the President's demand for revenue, but would offend various users of the mails. The House favored the latter course. The Senate was inclined to the former. The publishers had risen...
...flags of London fluttered. The guns in Hyde Park boomed. At Windrsor cannon roared salute and bells rang out right merrily through the day. Visitors flocked to Marlborough House to sign the guest book. Couriers-that is postmen and telegram lads-rushed with greetings. At Sandringham, surrounded by her royal relatives, the Queen Mother, Dowager Alexandra, passed a festive 80th birthday in the best of health and spirits...
...raise $43,000,000 from increased postal rates, of which $30,000,000 shall come from parcels post, $5,000,000 from second class mail, and the balance from third and fourth class. Farm organizations protested. Publishers who would be hit by the second class mail increase expressed irritation. Postmen lamented the vanished vision of the Edge raid. Mr. New was left to his honest troubles. One Congressional proposal was to increase parcels post rates by $80,000,000. As pointed out by Mr. New, this would probably put parcels post out of business. There are such things as express...
Paris garbage men decided to join parcel-postmen in striking for higher pay. The city authorities are trying to improvise a garbage removal service, but Parisians were without any hope of receiving parcels through the post...