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...Christian Science Monitor's report of what the American workman, cum laude 1928, does with the extra minutes that have been lopped off the time he devotes to his daily bread, by such soulful manufacturers as Mr. Ford. The Saturday half-holidays, the five-day week, the six-hour day, all have their ever-increasing following, and it sad time it would be for the world if those hours of freedom from toil were spent in dissipation or even innocent idleness...
...most part they will work in committees, the functions of which will be purely advisory. A full assembly will meet for the last week in each month in six-hour sessions. Members will have full liberty of expression and freedom of speech, but no subject may be discussed for more than three hours, no speech may be longer than 20 minutes. All press reports of the assembly meetings will be subject to the censorship of Prime's Directorate...
...conference between the United Mine Workers and the bituminous coal operators closed last week in Miami, Fla. It was a complete dud. The union miners voted solidly against a flexible wage scale; the operators voted solidly against renewing the Jacksonville agreement of 1924 (five-day week, six-hour day, $7.50 daily wage for unskilled labor). Big-jawed John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, will now try to reach separate agreements with the operators by districts. In Illinois and Indiana, where the operators can afford to pay high wages, he may be successful. But there will undoubtedly...
...fund. John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of America, "a cross between William Jennings Bryan and James J. Jeffries" (the fighting jaw is that of Jeffries), remains adamant in demanding that the Jacksonville agreement be renewed. His jaw is set for the five-day week and six-hour day as basis of pay. Not lightly will he surrender the wage of $7.50 per day (unskilled labor), which miners have held since the post-War peak of 1920. With such things to fight for and with arrogant confidence, President Lewis and his bituminous boys assembled last week...
...Queen Marie and her party left Manhattan for Washington. On the way from the City Hall to the Pennsylvania Station the crowds became so unmanageable that the royal party was forced to enter the station by a side door and descend to the train in a freight elevator. A six-hour run brought Her Majesty to Washington where she was greeted at the station by Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg. Proceeding to the Rumanian Legation, Her Majesty and their Royal Highnesses Ileana and Nicholas dined quietly, retired early. Next day they prepared to be entertained at the White House...