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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same as that of the San Francisco workers. Although the system of hiring dock workers, the bone of contention on the West Coast, differs somewhat in this section of the country, the Boston workmen ask for control of the shipping bureaus which hire the men. They also ask for shorter hours, higher wages, and recognition of unions of the workers' choice...
...Japan's puppet state Manchukuo cost Tsarist Russia $400,000,000 (preWar) to build. Its normal annual profit from 1924 to 1930 was nearly 20,000,000 gold rubles* a year. Even in 1933, after Japan had seized Manchuria, it earned 11,500,000 rubles. It was shorter, by 3,300 mi., than the Trans-Siberian Railroad's great circle route to Vladivostok. But its war value to Soviet Russia vanished when Japanese troops swarmed over Manchukuo. The sole question then was whether Japan would grab or buy the Chinese Eastern...
Already the textile code forbids unreasonable "stretch-out," and requires collective bargaining. As for higher wages and shorter hours, an NRA investigation recently resulted in a report that the indus-try could not afford them under present conditions...
...national strike of textile workers" remained a question mark. Last week President Roosevelt ordered NRA to cut the hours of cotton garment workers (not to be confused with cotton textile workers) from 40 to 36 per week and grant a wage increase of 10 to 11% to offset the shorter hours. United Textile Workers talked of winning a similar cut from 40 to 30 hours without reduction in pay, but few people believed that NRA would dare impose such an extra burden on the cotton textile industry. Much of the industry itself did not even care if a strike were...
...week closed, garment executives met in Manhattan, resolved that they "could not accept or acquiesce in the President's demands," called them "unjustifiable, unwarranted, burdensome and inequable." From the violence of their reaction, observers guessed that the president would not back up the textile workers in their designs for shorter hours...