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...insurgents and radicals demanded wage increases of 10% to 25%, a six-hour day and a five-day week. The Scale Committee reported a resolution favoring a four-year contract, and giving the committee, which will negotiate with the operators at Jacksonville on Feb. 11, authority "to secure the best agreement obtainable . . . on the basis of no reduction in wages...
...Coolidges took a six-hour cruise on the Potomac aboard the Mayflower. The guests included Secretary and Mrs. Denby, Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett and Mrs. Bartlett, former Senator and Mrs. McCumber, Representative Kahn of California and Mrs. Kahn, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Director of the Budget and Mrs. Lord, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns...
...five-day week, a six-hour day and a sixty percent increase in wages; these are the demands of the United Mine Workers of America. Unless they are satisfied in full, a strike is to be called on all the union bituminous fields in the nation. The result of such action can best be summed up in the words of president Wilson: "All interests would be affected alike by a strike of this character, and its victims would be not the rich only, but the poor and needy as well, those least able to provide in advance a fuel supply...
...very probable that the university will offer a course in military training, requiring not over nine hours a week, for which credit for three hours will be granted. The first third of the year will be devoted to drill, on a six-hour a week basis. During the winter months, when it is too cold for outdoor work, classes of instruction will be held. In the spring, drill will be taken up again and also manoeuvring and war problems...