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Kiel workmen refused to increase their working day by one hour. Shipyard owners shut down. The lock-out affected...
...atmosphere and attitude of both book and author can be summed up in one of Caleb's own speeches; and if in literature, as in shipbuilding, there were more thorough, sincere productions of this sort, more shipyard and less "gingerbread an paint", there would likewise be less hue and cry about the decadence of American letters. "Well, 'Glory', ole girl . . . they went an' busted up the shipyard; they went an' filled the harbor with bo'ts made o gingerbread an paint, that come a-scurryin' back to their moorin's a fore it blows hard enough to muss a woman...
...improved later when the Berlin Government succeeded in sending 809 food cars into the Ruhr, but the repressive tactics of the French are reputed to be making the situation dangerous. Hamburg. Martial law was pro claimed by the Senate on account of rioting on the part of the striking shipyard workers. Fights, resulting in fatal casualties, occurred between the strikers and the police. Lubeck. Communists seized the town and forced the Senate* to retire. Reichswehr troops tried unsuccessfully to restore order. Crefeld. Several Germans wounded during demonstration in favor of Rhineland Republic. Zeitz, Saxony. Sanguinary fighting between Communists...
...Tannenbaum, a young labor leader, has made a close study of the unemployment problem. In 1914 he served a year on Blackwells Island for leading a mob of unemployed into a New York church. During the war he first worked in a shipyard and later served in the army, where he gained the rank of sergeant. After the war he entered Columbia University, from which he graduated recently with highest honors. He is the author of a book called "The Labor Movement...
Again in 1913, an American company, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, negotiated with the Chinese Government with a view to build a naval shipyard for China with American materials and technical assistance in Fukein Province Japan projected. Fukien was claimed to be her sphere of interest, and no American can could be allowed to make such an investment. The present Japanese objection to the proposed establishment of radio stations in China by the Federal Telegraph Company of the United States further illustrates how Japan tries to close China's door to other powers except herself...