Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boomed Rear Admiral Fiske: "The British interests demand that Britain shall continue to dominate the sea trade of the world and dominate it with British guns. Our interests demand an equal right upon the sea. We are rapidly coming to a point where, to use expressive slang, we've really got to put up or shut...
...write on strike injunctions. He wrote: "The American Federation of Labor and its 4,000,000 members have become alarmed at the action of certain judges. . . ." He cited injunctions written by Judges Schoonmaker and Langham of Pennsylvania, who viewed Labor Strikes as restraints of trade. He cited the Clayton amendment to the Sherman Anti-Trust act, which says...
...founded at Chicago in 1905 by 203 delegates representing western miners, Socialists and remnants of the defunct American Labor Union. The purpose was to create a new, homogeneous labor body embracing not only the trade union memberships but unorganized agricultural and other unskilled laborers as well, especially the migratory ("foot-loose") class. "One big union" was the central idea of the autonomous crafts in operative idea of the autonomous crafts in the A. F. of L. The I. W. W. was for political action as well as economic. It was to prepare workers for a "Cooperative Commonwealth." Its constitution said...
Immediately bedlam was let loose. Angry Laborites chorused: "We want Baldwin! The Prime Minister! We want a responsible Minister! We want to know what the Government is doing and the President of the Board of Trade is not the Minister to give the answer! Baldwin! Baldwin!! BALDWIN...
...President of the Board of Trade, although a member of the Government, is not a Cabinet Minister...