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...their pay. In 1921 this policy was reversed, and Lenin made trade union membership voluntary. In the early Five-Year Plan period, Russian trade union officials were still attempting to bargain collectively with the Soviet State. They played a considerable role in shaping its wages and hours policies. In recent years Moscow dispatches have reported that this collective bargaining role of Soviet trade unions has "withered away," that the Kremlin has reduced them to the "cultural-educational role" of explaining its decrees to Soviet workers. In 1933, the Cabinet Commissariat for Labor was abolished and its functions transferred...
Other patents granted in recent weeks...
About other people's music Sibelius talks a great deal. But he was embarrassed by the wide publicity given his disparagement of Wagner, and has begun to hedge a little in his public statements. "Wagner, a genius . . . yo, yo, a great genius," he conceded airily to a recent interviewer. Earlier he had made no bones about his private estimate of the Pride of Bayreuth: "Wagner is rude, brutal, vulgar and completely lacking in delicacy! . . . For instance he shouts T love you, I love you.' To my mind that is something that you should whisper. . . . Look at his orchestration...
...fond of Italian opera, particularly of Verdi, whom he considers one of the greatest figures in music. For him Mozart and Mendelssohn "are the two greatest geniuses of the orchestra," and Beethoven, "the master above all others." However, in a recent interview he remarked with a twinkle: "All good composers lived in Egypt 5,000 years...
After Wall Street had sizzled for a week at these cracks and all their implied threats, President Gay unburdened himself of a polite but very generalized reply. Excerpt: "I do not contend that the recent decline in market prices is to be attributed to the condition of the market to which I called attention, or indeed to any single cause. I would be less than candid, however, if I failed to say that recent market developments have confirmed my belief that in the interests of the public and the investor the question of what are wise restrictions upon the scope...