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...Adjourned sine...
...Passed a bill providing for the construction of eight scout cruisers, six river gunboats, and installation of oil-burning boilers in six battleships. ¶Debated at length the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill. ¶By a vote of 221 to 157, supported a concurrent resolution to adjourn sine die on Saturday, June 7. (The resolution had not yet come up in the Senate...
Emboldened by recognition from Great Britain and smarting under the effect of the breakdown of Russo-Chinese negotiations at Peking, the Soviet Government apparently decided to make unconditional recognition a sine qua non of any negotiations with foreign powers. Notice to this effect was served at Berlin on the Dutch delegates conferring there with Red envoys for a Russo-Dutch Commercial Agreement. The Dutch delegation promptly abandoned discussion, returned to the Hague...
...evening of Aug. 31 anthracite mining adjourned sine die. The adjournment was complete. About 155,000 miners left the mines?not technically "striking," but " suspending operations "because a new wage contract had not been executed. In the hurried days immediately before, the function of peacemaker between miners and operators?given up as hopeless by the Coal Commision?descended upon Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania. He had desired it so. But he did not succeed in preventing the strike...
Next morning the Conference met again. Neither side would yield. The miners again proposed adjournment, sine die. The operators proposed that the miners accept either a renewal of the present wage contract till April 1, 1925, with such additions as had already been agreed on, or an agreement that there would be no strike on September 1, and that the questions of the check-off and of a 20% raise in wages be settled by arbitration. The miners refused. At the suggestion of the operators the Conference adjourned ? to meet again at the call of the Secretary if either...