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Here within the University the necessity for training similar to that offered by the newly organized Institution of Public Affairs is obvious. A graduate school of Public Affairs would fulfill the need or at least some provision for practical training tin government for students of political science must be provided. For it is they who will take over the reins of political control in the future and they must be trained for the responsibilities of leadership while young and free from partisan tutelage...
Steel. Not since 1919 has the A. F. of L. made a serious bid to unionize the steel industry. Now honest Mike Tighe, president of the Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, "conservatively" counts 100,000 members in his union. It is much easier, however, to get a workman to sign a union card than to pay his initiation fee. Nobody, not even Mr. Tighe, can calculate how many members his union can effectively call off the job. Nevertheless, at its annual meeting in Pittsburgh last month Amalgamated voted to strike. Fortnight ago Leader Tighe served an ultimatum on the steel...
Judge Nields had to do some heavy reading. Last June Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir installed a company union, modeled on that of Bethlehem Steel, in the plants of his Weirton Steel Co. at Steubenville, Ohio, Clarksburg, and Weirton, W. Va. Last September the Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers (A. F. of L. affiliate) called a strike in his plants and demanded recognition from Weirton Steel. The strike was settled when the National Labor Board got Steelmaster Weir to agree that the National Labor Board should supervise a union election in his plants in December (TIME, Dec. 25). Less than...
...Swooping down on the dingy tin-roofed villages of Vistica and Puerto Grande last week, Argentine police arrested 27 cattle thieves and discovered an ardent admirer of NRA. Cattle Thief Francisco Atenor Gomez, painfully picking his way through Buenos Aires newspapers, had evolved a plan to up the price of stolen cattle by setting up a rustler's code for six other bands of cattle thieves, pooling stolen cattle in secret corrals until prices rose. At the police station he was only too glad to explain...
...slaughter going. Holland and Norway have sold the fighters rifle ammunition, Denmark. Madsen machine guns. Sweden, Bofors cannon. Spain, Oviedo rifles, Czechoslovakia's Brno Works, automatic rifles. How Paraguay paid for all this remained a mystery. Bolivia has financed the war without recourse to extreme taxation, entirely on tin, her greatest export...