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Briand, Minister of Public Instruction Edouard Herriot, Minister of Marine Georges Leygues, Minister of Public Works André Tardieu, Minister of Commerce Maurice Bokanowksi, and Minister of Pensions Louis Marin...
...anti-socialist ranks include Prime Minister Poincaré, erudite Minister of Justice Louis Barthou, and smart, facile Minister of Public Works André Tardieu. A swing by the electorate to these men and their supporters would mean the definite retention in office of M. Poincaré and the consecration of his policies...
Less brilliant, more statistical than M. Tardieu's new book is a detailed analysis* of U. S. institutions by Andre Siegfried, Professor at the School of Political Sciences, Paris. He says of President Coolidge: "Small, uninspiring . . . dislikes games, prefers prosaic walks . . . skillful politician . . . eager to do what is right." Of the Governor of New York, Alfred E. Smith, Professor Siegfried thinks: "Excellent Governor . . . born in the slum quarters . . . prestige mainly owing to his origin...
...northern French coal miners and operators were deadlocked in conference at St. Etienne last week, when M. Tardieu communicated to them his resolve not to tolerate a strike. The operators, he declared, were right when they proposed to cut the price of coal to meet foreign competition† but were wrong in attempting to cut the men's wages low enough to leave the operators' profits unimpaired by the new low price of coal. Similarly, rapped M. Tardieu, the men were wrong in demanding that their wages remain the same while the price of coal...
Both sides would have laughed at such imperative mediation by the Government a few months ago. Last week they pondered well M. Tardieu's plan, to which he added the bait of a promise that the Government would raise the tariff on coal. Soon the compromise was indited, the bargain between miners and owners sealed, the strike averted. Frenchmen began, last week, to pay less for coal- about $2.50 less...