Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Injunctions. Vice President Matthew Woll, with his thick black hair bristling defiance of any and all who would stand in the way of trade unionism and its weapon, the strike, stepped upon the speakers' platform, urged trade unionists to scoff at injunctions "like red-blooded men whose rights are invaded...
...purpose to study these deceptive organizations [company unions] and unite our movement in a great effort to eliminate them and to replace them with free associations of workers under the trade union banner has our most hearty approval. We would only add that the equally enslaving institution, falsely and treacherously called the open shop, be added to the field of study and action...
There is in the cigarmaker's trade a monotony which he tries to vary by whistling, by singing, by talking, above all by thinking. Last week an anonymous correspondent at Tampa, Fla., reported as a news feature that local cigar-makers had hired elocutionists to read to them and distract them from thinking while at work. Tampa cigarmakers had such readers before their strike...
...great international bankers and a few industrialists of fifteen of the leading nations of the world have drawn up and signed an imposing manifesto declaring for radical tariff reduction, and even for unrestricted free trade. Among the American signatories are J. P. Morgan, J. J. Mitchell and Thomas N. Perkins...
...tariff walls, restrictions, and prohibitions are accurately surveyed. "Too many states," reads the report, "in pursuit of false ideals of national interest, have imperilled their own welfare and lost sight of the common interests of the world, by basing their commercial relations on the economic folly which treats all trading as a form of war." This paragraph, and two others that follow might have been lifted bodily from Professor Taussig's "Principles of Economics". They are overflowing with sound economic theory and pious statements. One begins to regret the carping attitude of "The Nations" and its ilk toward those high...