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...Lines now own three ships for which North German Lloyd will be compensated as follows: George Washington $3,851,000, Amerika (now America) $2,979,000, President Grant (now Republic) $2,389,000. For its Grosser Kurfurst (now City of Los Angeles of the Los Angeles Steamship Co.) the N. G. L. will receive $1,500,000 and for Princess Alice (now City of Honolulu...
...each side should be free to designate its agents by "collective action, without interference, influence or coercion by either party over the self-organization of the other." In 1927 a wage dispute arose between the Texas & New Orleans R. R. (a Southern Pacific subsidiary) and the Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks. When the Brotherhood began to choose its representatives to appear before the Board of Mediation, the railroad organized a company union, attempted to inveigle Brotherhood men into it. On the ground that the railroad would by this means control both sides of the wage argument before the Board...
...owners are one of Japan's great families, the House of Iwasaki. She flys the "N. Y. K." flag of the Japan mail steamship company, famed Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Beaming with satisfaction her passengers debarked from the first trans-Pacific "Cabin Class" ($250), from the first trans-Pacific "Tourist Third" ($125). Hitherto it has cost some $300 to cross the Pacific in First and to cross in plain Second or plain Third has been even more infra dig; than on the Atlantic...
Chief among the attractions of the European tours advertised by the steamship companies involved is the American student orchestra. This institution ensures that even when in search of that peculiarly European commodity, culture, the innocent abroad may fortify himself with the most characteristic product of the homeland, Jazz. Harvard men may therefore congratulate themselves that their institution is in a position to contribute to this latest of conveniences for the foreign tourist. At least two all Harvard orchestras are already booked for the Atlantic service this summer. May they fulfill their high mission of proving to students from all over...
Roman newsorgans. while conveying what their editors were told at the Foreign Office in mere hints, definitely announced last week that Count Bethlen and Il Duce arranged for the immediate organization of an Italo-Hungarian steamship line to operate from the Italian port of Fiume. to provide adequate transport to Mediterranean markets of Hungarian wheat...