Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With their wives and families they form nearly one-tenth of the total British population. This is their fifteenth week without wages. Every kind of trade union resource is exhausted. There are whole areas where $2 a week is all a woman gets to keep her entire home going. "No relief is given to men, to boys over fourteen, or to children under twelve months. Private resources have helped, but now we are faced with a condition that makes it simply necessary to appeal abroad. We have appealed to Europe, and now we are appealing to America...
Status Quo. The "condition" of British trade unionism was starkly revealed last week by President Havelock Wilson of the Seamen's Union: "Nearly every trade union in Great Britain is bankrupt in consequence of the disastrous collapse of the General Strike (TIME, May 24). . . . Hundreds of thousands of men are refusing to pay dues to their unions. . . . The men are deserting and forming new unions." Total Deadlock. The striking miners have voted during the past fortnight on a peace proposal submitted by a group of English bishops (TIME, July 26, Aug. 9) for the settlement of the coal strike...
Briefly, Germany accords France "most-favored nation" commercial status under the agreement, and France extends similar trade preference to Germary, though avoiding by disguised phraseology the term "most-favored nation." As initialed, the accord becomes effective Aug. 20, 1926, is renewable every six months, is expected to smooth the way for a formal Franco-German trade treaty of similar scope...
...Suffered Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister (President of the Board of Trade) to dispense the pessimistic information that the Joint Trade Committee had come to the definite conclusion last week that no present remedy is at hand for protecting the British cinema, production industry against what has proved to be the disastrous competition of U. S. films...
...this city of 40,000 has paid neither its policemen nor its firemen. Last week the local council decided to close one of the two fire stations. Public spirited citizens, who realize that most of the business section is of old, highly inflammable construction deemed good enough for the trade of immigrant steel workers, have pledged $10,000 to pay some wages to remaining firemen. The council, too, voted to discharge the entire police force, sad-eyed Police Chief B. J. Gillen with his 16 aids.* Sheriff Al Weaver promised to patrol the city. But the local magnates knew that...