Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longshoremen was which of them should control the "hiring halls" where stevedores are given jobs. But some 15,000 other shipping workers ? stewards, sailors, cooks, pilots?had struck in sympathy. When joint control of the hiring halls had been proposed the longshoremen rejected it because it provided no settlement for the allied strikers...
Joseph P. Ryan. I. L. A. national president, was powerless as the Board to make a settlement. Said...
Steel. More far-reaching was the President's action in naming a "National Steel Labor Relations Board." Both employers and labor had proposed naming a board to handle questions of collective bargaining. Therefore the board was not named to make a settlement but to be the settlement. It was given power to investigate charges made under the Recovery Act's collective bargaining clause, to mediate, to arrange for collective bargaining conferences, to arbitrate if requested and, most important, to hold employe elections whenever it sees fit and have access to payrolls in order to conduct elections...
...countries economic assistance and help obtain revision of the post-War treaties which brand them as beaten nations cramped within reduced frontiers. Everywhere Foreign Minister Barthou went he declared that France will block any such revision. He scoffed, by implication, at Italy's power to bring an altered settlement or substantial economic assistance. In Rome the blood pressure of Benito Mussolini rose. But what could II Duce do? Suddenly in the middle of the night he had an idea...
...excessively popular in Peru and for months did not know how to let Leticia go without shame to Peru's virile Latin "honor." Only the vast tact of President Olaya Herrera of Colombia and General Vasquez Cobo whom he sent to overawe the Peruvians in Leticia, made a settlement without undue bloodshed possible. Swamp fever did most of the killing. Tall, patient President Olaya Herrera and short, jovial General Vasquez Cobo embraced enthusiastically as the diplomatic squabble ended in a virtuous decision to return Leticia to Mother Colombia. In a jungle clearing last week a Colombian trimotored plane waited...