Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hull, Yorkshire, was held this year's Trades Union Congress.* Some 700 delegates, representing more than 5 million workers, attended. Fraternal delegates present were Peter J. Brady and Edward J. Gainer of the American Federation of Labor; J. A. McClelland of the Canadian Trades and Labor Congress; J. Ondegeest of the Amsterdam Trades Union Internationale; five representatives from the All-Russian Council of Trade under the chairmanship of M. Michael Pavlovitch Tomsky...
...reported to the next Congress and deprived of support from the rest oi the unions. On the other hand, if the Council gives advice which is followed and a strike cannot be avoided, then a general strike is to be called to help the striking trade...
...Shanghai is an extraterritorial foreign settlement situated at the extreme southeat of the Province of Kiangsu. Its great harbor is indispensible to foreign trade in China. Its political importance can be gauged when it is stated that all Chinese political refugees find protection within its borders...
...first time in many weeks the steel trade can point to current developments as harbingers of improvement, instead of having to rely on Chairman Gary's blandly optimistic speeches. The U. S. Steel Corporation reported an increase of 10% in bookings during the first three weeks of August. Production has crept past its recent 50% mark. In June it was only about...
...mostly a question of the weather how large the 1924 cotton crop will be. On Aug. 1, the Government estimated this year's crop at 12,351,000 bales. But its report of the "condition" of the crop on Aug. 16 was 64.9-from which fact the trade is beginning to talk of a 13,000,000-bale crop. The boll weevil, while by no means eradicated, is not expected to be so severe a scourge to cotton this year as last. On the other hand, tropical storms sweeping up over the Cotton Belt from the Gulf over...