Word: ruhr
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...Harry V. Dougherty, head of a private detective agency which specializes in providing " emergency labor," a polite term for labor scabs, gave an interview in which he said that he had opened negotiations with the French Government whereby he would secure American Negro labor to operate the Ruhr coal mines. But he was unable to persuade any Negroes to take up his offer of $7 a day, plus board and lodging, nor could passports for the strikebreakers be obtained from the State Department...
Imbued with a lust for power, he looks upon the Ruhr with cruel eyes, and, " Hugo Stinnes, master of coke so long that he has come to look like a piece himself," waits for his opportunity...
Hugo Stinnes. Crafty, potent, indurate, Herr Hugo Stinnes, coal magnate, multimillionaire, present " All-Highest " of Germany, plots a coal victory in the Ruhr. His aim is the control of the European steel industries, and, like all mysterious figures who move in the no-man's-land of international politics, he stands to win whichever side comes...
Shootings. France and German}' are stranded in the quicksands of the Ruhr occupation. The policy of each becomes more violent as time goes on, and the end is still far away. Murder has been met with " killing," and the last battle on the Ruhr promises to be as bloody as the first in the Great...
...meeting was opened by a brief speech by V. S. Phen 2G., of China, the presiding officer. G. F. Jentsch 2G., representing Germany, then spoke on the legal justification of France's occupation of the Ruhr. He stated that France was not justified for three reasons; the clause of the tretay covering the question allowed only concerted action and France's invasion was not valid unless backed by the other signatory powers; according to international law France had overstepped the rights of "financial and economic measures" authorized in the Versailles Treaty; and finally all reprisals should be made...