Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leaders of the strikers denied last night the rumor that the action was in any way inspired by sympathy with the recent action of the British Trades Union Congress leaders. They regard the local action as one entirely distinct from the more important national crisis in Great Britain. Their newly formed union acknowledges no affiliations of any sort with any national trade union. No action has as yet been taken by the CRIMSON to organize a volunteer corps of newsboys to meet the emergency, and last night it was the opinion of both sides that some sort of compromise...
...Work of Federal Trade Commission and Unfair Trade Practice," Professor Ripley, Emerson D. Economics...
...further contradiction to claims advanced by labor leaders that the general strike was only part of the peaceful methods for economic reconstruction adopted by the Trade Unions, Professor Abbott quoted the late Samuel Gompers to the effect that "direct action is both tragic and fantastic" and that "destroying political democracy cannot by any interpretation be called constructive or productive of permanent benefit." He continued...
Organized labor is giving a gigantic exhibition of its power in England. At one swoop, the leaders of the trade unions are able to paralyze the circulatory system of an industrialized country to function. With the funds now at the disposal of the unions, this strength may be maintained for a month, and if no settlement be reached at the end of that time, the workers will have only a bleak prospect to look forward...
...themselves. Strikes in a single industry have time and again proven beneficial to labor, shortening hours and increasing pay. But a deliberate paralysis of industrial necessities would seem to threaten the very existence of the present form of society, to attempt the imposition of the will of the Trade Union Congress on parliament. It makes little difference in the final outcome whether a revolution be accomplished by bloodless starvation or gory bayonets...